Transmission

gunzip wrote:I believe that is expected daemon behavior, you can print to foreground or logfile but not both. They are mutually exclusive options.

Oh you're right. I thought 2.22 printed to both simultaneously.

So the -e switch is effectively just output redirection to a file.

It turns out it's not too difficult to build transmission 2.42 on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 x86. I did the following:

prefix=$HOME/build
cd /dev/shm
wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/libevent-2.0.15-stable.tar.gz
tar -xzf libevent-2.0.15-stable.tar.gz
cd libevent-2 ...

Thanks a lot! :D

Now I'll have to build transmission by myself (which is not completely trivial because Ubuntu 8.04 seem to lacks many dependencies)

BTW, I think it may be a good idea to add an actual "stop" state to transmission (as opposed to just a "paused" state which still contacts the ...

I've disabled DHT and set the speed limits to zero from 9 AM to 5 PM. However, even if I stop all torrents and disconnect all control interfaces (web/rpc), transmission-daemon still communicates via the network. I don't know if it's talking to trackers or peers, but nethogs reports a <1KB/s ...