transmission-daemon on lenny server

[ueghio]

Hi guys,this is my first post in this forum .
I need to install transmission on my debian server and to manage it from a client machine through a web browser.
I tried to follow the wiki http://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/Hea ... ge/General without success.I installed Transmission and transmission-cli,I copied the executable "transmission-daemon" in /etc/init.d/ but when I try to start it,this is the output:

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Starting bittorrent client transmission-daemon...
   Starting bittorrent client transmission-daemon succeeded

and then nothing happened,I don't see any active task in

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top

I don't have the file /home/transmission/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json
In ubuntu server it worked but I added the /etc/default/transmission-daemon file that in debian seems unuseful..
can you please help me?
thanks in advance,marco

[shikai]

in debian everything works just fine
you just have to install packages: transmission-common transmission-daemon transmission-cli

the configuration files you need to look are
/etc/default/transmission-daemon (imho jut leave it as it is)
/etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json
default u/p for web interface is transmission/transmission

the daemon starts as user debian-transmission , so if you change the download directory beware of the file permissions

also sometimes it uses so little resources that it it doesn't show in top , a

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 ps awxu|grep transmission 

is more helpful

i suggest that you remove the daemon you manually added and install debians transmission-daemon instead

everything runs fine for me in debian testing x86

[usky]

Hello shikai,

I did a lenny install on a NAS DLINK 313. IT is working fine.
My only need is now to install transmission-daemon, but aptitude don't find it ....
Can you tell me how to have it available in aptitude ?

[shikai]

are you sure you are using the testing version usky?

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apt-show-versions transmission-daemon -a
transmission-daemon 1.75-1 install ok installed
No stable version
transmission-daemon 1.75-1 testing  ftp.nl.debian.org
transmission-daemon 1.76-1 unstable ftp.nl.debian.org
transmission-daemon/testing uptodate 1.75-1

if not you can add the testing to your sources.list

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deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free

then do

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aptitude update
aptitude install transmission-daemon/testing

you might want to have a a look at apt-pinning (http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html) also before doing the update