settings.json not awailable

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tgunn
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settings.json not awailable

Post by tgunn »

hello there

I m facing a crasy situation,

on centos7 I installed transmission as below
settings.json file is not awailable anywhere in /. Did a locate settings.json and it just does not exist.

If I do start transmission with systemctl start transmission-daemon.service I can see web daemon is running but since there is not settings.json is awailable I can not edit its content thus I face a '403: Forbidden Unauthorized IP Address.' page

Is it possible to force ExecStart=/usr/bin/transmission-daemon - to create setting.json file on startup or force to use a default settings.json on a defined location ?
Thank you

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yum install epel-release
yum -y update
yum install transmission-cli transmission-common transmission-daemon

systemctl start transmission-daemon.service
systemctl stop transmission-daemon.service

/var/lib/transmission/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json does not exist
tgunn
Posts: 2
Joined: Sun Dec 24, 2017 9:35 pm

Re: settings.json not awailable

Post by tgunn »

maybe i found the reason

in /var/log/messages I can see
transmission-daemon: [2017-12-24 23:16:32.069] Couldn't create "/etc/transmission-daemon": Permission denied (file-posix.c:189)

I installing transmission with sudo (root privileges) and starrting with root prifileges as well

Anyone tell Is there any reason why transmission-daemon can not write to /etc/ folder please ?

Thank alot
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