Editting settings.json

[bound4h]

I'm using the ARM Linux distro of transmission on my NAS (DNS323). I start it with:

transmission-daemon -f -g /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon

However, I want to enable (set true) the incomplete-dir-enabled attribute in settings.json. If I edit the file using vi and save, when I restart transmission the file is overwritten. Is there a command to update the file so it survives a restart?

Thank you

[Rolcol]

Either kill transmission-daemon before making any changes or signal it with SIGHUP to reload the settings while it's running. I recommend the latter.

[bound4h]

How to signal it with SIGHUP?

[Rolcol]

How to signal it with SIGHUP?

1) Make your changes to settings.json
2) kill -SIGHUP `pidof transmission-daemon`

[bound4h]

But there are about 4 different processes for transmission running...

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22193 22192 nobody   S     8632  14%   0% /ffp/bin/transmission-daemon -f -g /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon 
22194 22192 nobody   S     8632  14%   0% /ffp/bin/transmission-daemon -f -g /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon 
22191     1 nobody   S     8632  14%   0% /ffp/bin/transmission-daemon -f -g /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon 
22192 22191 nobody   S     8632  14%   0% /ffp/bin/transmission-daemon -f -g /mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon 

Which one? Also, when use the ` and the ` to enclose the PID, it says:

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root@zbackup:/mnt/HD_a2/.transmission-daemon# kill -SIGHUP `22191`
-sh: 22191: not found
sh: you need to specify whom to kill

[Rolcol]

Don't add the ticks. The contents of the ticks are evaluated like commands. `pidof transmission-daemon` can either manually (by you) be replaced with the actual PID (no ticks) or you can leave the command as it is. pidof isn't a standard command, though.

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kill -SIGHUP 22191