can't run transmission as user (other than root)

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Ortix
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can't run transmission as user (other than root)

Post by Ortix »

I just built transmission 2.12 on my dedicated CentOS 5 machine following this guide:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10902

When i do sudo su [user] this appears:

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bash-3.2$
(i'm still kinda new to linux so don't know all the terms)

Then when i type transmission-daemon, it tells me that the command cannot be found.

Also, i'm running plesk and this is a plesk user. I had to give it a special ssh privilige inside plesk. These were the options:
/bin/sh
/bin/bash
/bin/rbash
/sbin/nologin
/bin/bash (chrooted)

EDIT: I just thought of the fact that this user has no folder in /home. It's just a user for the domain which is located at /var/www/vhosts/domain.tld
EDIT2: I just created a new user inside linux (adduser) and did sudo su into the user. Still same error

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bash: transmission-daemon: command not found
Any ideas?
gunzip
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Re: can't run transmission as user (other than root)

Post by gunzip »

when logged in as root, enter

$ which transmission-daemon

that should give full path to the daemon binary, which you can then use when you su to the new user.

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bash-3.2$ /path/to/transmission-daemon -f
Ortix
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Re: can't run transmission as user (other than root)

Post by Ortix »

bam thanks!
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