Headless Mac Torrent Download-Server?

[chorlya]

Thanks for getting to the bottom of this. Excellent work!

I just now had the chance to try out https://trac.transmissionbt.com/changeset/11785 and it seems to resolve this long standing issue. No more temporarily moving app support and similar shenanigans.

Thanks!

[bulljit]

Thanks should go to Jordan, since he whipped up the actual patch in no time!

In an effort to get this post even further off topic, are you noticing that the "watch-dir" no longer works with v2.20+? I wanted to confirm this with someone else before coming down hard that its a new BUG.

I think it got goofed with the switch to libevent 2.0, but I'm a little slow at digging through the source.

[chorlya]

Sorry mate, I don't use the "watch-dir" feature so I wouldn't know if there's any problem with it.

[bulljit]

x190,

When I revert to v.2.13 it seems to work. I also make sure the permissions are read/writable by everyone.

Are you running daemon 2.20 on Mac OSX? I'm on 10.6.6. This is driving me nutty =/

[bulljit]

x190,

Actually the daemon runs very similar to *nix builds, using settings.json. The only difference is it stores it's configuration files and /web directory under $HOME/Library/Application Support/transmission-daemon/

Jordan came to the rescue, and fixed another bug for us...
https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/3967

Watch-dir is now back in action

[maciekish]

How do i compile this on Lion? Configure fails when it cannot find the Mac OS 10.5 SDK.

[maciekish]

How do i compile this on Lion? Configure fails when it cannot find the Mac OS 10.5 SDK.

If you installed Xcode, Transmission from svn comes with a .xcodeproj.

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svn co svn://svn.transmissionbt.com/Transmission/trunk Transmission

P.S. Lion is 10.7 not 10.5.

I tried the ports version first but failed on 10.5 sdk dependency. Svn version works fine though. Have the daemon running now.

[simonpie]

Just want to add my two cents.

Cent one : Instruction given by ryanv worked perfectly for me to install transmission 2.22 on older power-pc.

Cent two : The watch dir feature does not seem to work when configured in the setting.json file. But if one starts the daemon using the -c flag, then it work flawlessly.

[jpillora]

All of these instructions with XCode and compiling projects seem complicated. Here's how I got my headless transmission working:

1. Go to https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action and search for "Command line tools" and choose the one for your Mac OSX
2. Go to http://brew.sh/ and enter the one-liner into the Terminal, you now have brew installed (a better Mac ports)
3. Install transmission-daemon with

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brew install transmission

4. Change settings (I set rpc auth to false) with

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nano /usr/local/var/transmission/settings.json

5. Copy the startup config for launchctl with

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ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/transmission/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents

6. Start transmission (will then always auto-start) with

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launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.transmission.plist

7. Visit http://127.0.0.1:9091/transmission/web/ and you're done