Multple instances or similar

[Trebuin]

I basically need two instances of transmission running at the same time with different settings without having to reset the settings every boot.

I plan on uploading torrent files to two different folders on dropbox remotely. Each version of transmission needs to monitor a different folder, download the file, and one will save some files locally (not on dropbox) while the other will download the files and then save the files to dropbox. How do I do this with OSX?

[Trebuin]

A little more info:

Done a days worth of google searching and I'm running Lion so Peek-o-matic does not work.

[Trebuin]

Ok, of course after all day of searching and finally posting, I have found what I was looking for by playing with the info.plist:

create two different names to the application
select "show package contents" for the application
show contents and open info.plist with texteditor

edit the strings for the following from "Transmission" to something like "Transmission Local":

CFBundleName

edit the following:
under CFBundleIdentifier, change
org.m0k.transmission to something else like org.m0k.transmissionlocal
that's your settings file reference. Your previous settings will be lost but you can rename the settings file located in library, preferences under user.

That should do it, you can now run two instances with each a different setting. Some of these allow the application to more clearly identify the differences so you know which one you are working with.

[Jordan]

Yippee aye a,
Yippee aye o,
Let my TurboT go.

x190, I don't always understand your flights of fancy, but they usually make me smile.

[Dredog]

Sorry to resurrect a two year old thread but this topic is of interest to me. Has anyone been able to get 2 completely separate instances of Transmission running?

[Dredog]

would you mind sharing how you did this? I'm computer savvy but not as technical as some of the folks on this forum.

Apparently so.

[Dredog]

yes, i intend to run a unique set of torrents i went ahead and installed xcode but to be honest i dont know what to do with it. thanks for your help!

[Dredog]

Thank you for your detailed response! I apologize but I wasn't able to try your directions until today.

Unfortunately, I encountered an error on the very first step. I entered "cd Desktop ; svn co svn://svn.transmissionbt.com/Transmission/trunk Transmission" as you suggested. However, I get an error saying, "-bash: svn: command not found"

Thanks again for your help!

[Dredog]

Alright, I followed your instruction and got it working. Thanks again for your help!

[TiG82]

Hi,

I was wondering if this process may have changed now with Mavericks as I've come up against a couple of issues...

When first opening Transmission.xcodeproj file it asks me to "Validate Project Settings - update to recommended settings" and brings up a list of changes including:

Build Phases
-> Target 'QuicklookPlugin' - Remove Duplicate References in Build Phase

and

Build Settings
-> Target Transmission - Combine High Definition Artwork
-> Target "QuicklookPlugin" - Combine High Resolution Artwork
-> Project "Transmission" - Upgrade Bask SDK Configuration to Latest Mac OS X (OS X 10.9)
-> Project "Transmission" - Enable Recommended Warnings
-> Project "Transmission" - Automatically Select Architectures

I can select to PERFORM THE UPDATES or Cancel.

IF I PERFORM UPDATES, after I have made the necessary changes to Controller.m, and I build the project it doesn't provide me with a "Transmission.app" but rather a folder called "Transmission-hjtkzgzckcjshlhjdsccjxehyuok" which doesn't contain a folder called Contents. Despite xCode saying the build was successful it lists 470 warnings and 2 errors.

IF I DON'T PERFORM THE UPDATES, I get the same folder, no .app, but only 77 warnings and 2 errors.

The two errors are the same both times:
- "miniupnp - shell script invocation error - Cat: VERSION: No such file or directory"
- "miniupnp - shell script invocation error - command bin/sh/ emitted errors but did not return a nonzero exit code..."

I'm far from an xCode expert, I'm just trying to get two independent instances of TRANSMISSION running...

Thanks for any help...

[Astara]

This is a post about getting more than one transmission copy to run.

I didn't repackage it. I use a different "startup" script for each.
(on a linux box, such scripts (pre-systemd) were in /etc/rc.d/
and/or /etc/init.d and subdirs there (rc3.d for multi-user no desktop/X)
rc5 for 'X'... where they would get called as services that need to be
started at system start.

For my two instances, I name 1 file transmission,
the other 'transmission1'.

I have to embed the names IN the files, so I can't use the same file
for both (wanted to just 'link' to 1 file... but would have had to
compensate for the startup system.

This script handles A BUNCH of different config possibilities...
including reading settings out of /etc/sysconfig/transmission,
Having them passed in the environmen,
or having them each daemon's home directory.

One runs out /home/transmission, the other runs
out of /home/transmission/child1
(the script knows which by the number on the end of the file).

Theoretically MAC is running on a BSD so a startup script might be possible??? It uses bash as it's shell script.

I tried to post it as an attachment, but it would take it.

So Have to put it inline:

Code: Select all

#!/bin/bash 
#
# /etc/rc.d/transmission.rc script by Astara at tlinx.org (c) 2010
#		use, modify and derive from,  as thou wilt.  If you find this useful
#		that's great!  If you want to mention me in credits, that a bonus!  Enjoy!
#		Developed and tested on suse 11.2 - 12.2

#  transmission[{XX}] [verb]     [{XX}] -- where {XX} is an *optional*
																		#  integer and is appended to the 
																		#  start script name - to allow running
																	  #  more than one instance -- I run 2
																		# a main one 'transmission, and a child
																		# transmission1

																		# running multiple daemons allows finer
																		# grain control of priorities

## note: "tmd" below, is my short-hand notation for "transmission-daemon"

# When {XX} is noted, for XX>0, home dir directs to 'child{XX}' under
# the real home directory
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:			 transmission
# Required-Start:	 $network, $local_fs,
# Should-Start:		 upnp $remote_fs named 
# Required-Stop:	 
# Should-Stop:		 
# Default-Start:	 3 5
# Default-Stop:		 0 1 2 6
# Short-Description: transmission-daemon: a file transfer daemon
# Description:		 transmission-daemon is a file transfer daemon utilizing
#					 the 'bit-torrent' protocol.  This allow for transferring
#					 large amounts of data by sharing the network bandwith 
#					 among downloaders.  Note -- to make effective use of
#					 this client, it is necessary to allow incoming and
#					 outgoing traffic through a firewall.
#					 Only 1 port needs to be open and this can be defined
#					 statically -- so you can manually add rules to your 
#					 firewall.	The daemon will use upnp to talk to a
#					 compliant firewall to ask it to open a port for it,
#					 allowing for port randomization on startup, if that
#					 is desired.  Software upnp programs, like 'linux-igd'
#					 are freely available by searching on the web, will
#					 function as a upnp gateway and will manage connections
#					 through a linux or other firewall.
### END INIT INFO
#

## support code & functions

Id="$(type -p id)"
Sed="$(type -p sed)"
Sudo="$(type -p sudo)"

use_group_access=1

if ((use_group_access)); then

	unset Groups
	typeset -Ax Groups

	function _idparse {
		# parse output of id:
		# uid=##(name) gid=##(name) groups=##(name)[,##(name)]...
		# Note, names may be 'absent' (in which case there are no parens).
		# grouplist is *comma* separated! -- but only on output of 'id';
		# I don't "idnames" can start with a number... (we'll assume not)
		# if group has no name, put it's number in as it's name
		# else you wouldn't see you are in those groups
		
		while read id ; do
			[[ $id =~ .?id= ]] && continue;	#skip over uid/gid entries
			id="${id/\(/ }"
			id="${id/\)/}"
			gid="${id%% *}"
			name="${id#$gid}"
			name=${name##\ }
			[[ -z $name ]] && name="$gid"
			Groups[$name]="$gid"
		done	< <($Id|$Sed -r '
			s/\) gid/\)\ngid/ ; s/\) groups/\)\ngroups/ ; s/\\/\\\\/g ;
			s/\),([0-9])/)\n\1/g ; s/\b([0-9]+),/\1\n/g ; s/groups=//')
	}
	_idparse ## populate Groups Hash
fi

# I set my user defaults here as I try to use the group for access
# (doesn't actually work taht well because transmission-daemon 
# has a design flaw and set's it's umask to it's own arbitrary value
# vs. allowing user to set it 


tmd_user=torrent											# generic 'torrent' user to run torrents
tmd_home="$(eval echo ~$tmd_user)"		#they better have a home
tmd_base_home="$tmd_home"
tmd_group="$(groups torrent 2>/dev/null |cut -d\  -f3)"		#and a real group
tmd_child=""

# note sudo is annoying to configure properly these days..
# best to sudo first then run this script: 
#	    (ex. "sudo /etc/rc.d/transmission start"
if (($EUID != 0)) ; then  
	if [[ -n ${Groups[$tmd_group]:-} ]]; then
		if [[ -z ${TRIED_ROOT:-} ]]; then
			export TRIED_ROOT="yes"
			exec sudo -E -g "$tmd_group" $0 "$@"
		fi
	fi
	echo "Need Root privs to successully run this script..."
	exit -1
fi
unset TRIED_ROOT >&/dev/null || ((0))	#no longer needed

#presumably user is root-priv'ed now.
#parse command instance
prog="$(basename "$0")"
core="$(echo $prog |sed -r 's/^.*transmission/trm/ ; 
			s/^.*trm[0]*([1-9][0-9]+)/trm$1/')"

[[ ${core:0:3} == trm && ${#core} -gt 3 ]] &&  tmd_child="${core:3}"

[[ $# -gt 1 && $2 =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] && tmd_child="$2"

tmd_child="${tmd_child##0}"

[[ $tmd_child ]] && tmd_home="$tmd_home/child$tmd_child"



tmd_umask=002

etc_loglevel=info		#default logging level

#unset tmd_use_proxy # default 
# don't use these by default
if [[ ! ${use_proxy:-} =~ ^y ]]; then
	unset -v http_proxy
	unset -v ftp_proxy
	unset -v https_proxy
fi


if [[ -r ${tmd_log_level_file:-""} ]]; then
	nlvl=$(<"$tmd_log_level_file")
	if [[ $nlvl == info || $nlvl == debug || 
		$nlvl == error || $nlvl == none ]] ; then
		etc_loglevel=$nlvl
	fi
fi
# use prefix 'tmd' = instead of full program/service name; its just too long


tmd_bin="/usr/bin/transmission-daemon"
tmd_piddir="/var/run/transmission/"

#make sure we can write in piddir
if [[ ! -d $tmd_piddir ]]; then
	mkdir -m 6775 "$tmd_piddir" && chown $tmd_user.$tmd_group $tmd_piddir
fi

tmd_pidfile="$tmd_piddir/transmission-daemon$tmd_child.pid"
tmd_logdir="/var/log/transmission"
tmd_log="$tmd_logdir/daemon$tmd_child.log"
tmd_output_log="$tmd_logdir/output$tmd_child.log"

tmd_nice=5


# could use just "-c3" for lowest(idle) disk priority
tmd_ionicep="-c2 -n7"	# best effort; lowest in class

tmd_existing_config=$tmd_home/settings.json

# read the daemon's current config to get values...for defaults

function read_json_config {
	local cfg="${1:-}" local fl="${2:-}"
	typeset -A $cfg
	perl -wE '
	use 5.12.0; $|=1;
		my $cfg = shift @ARGV;
		open (my $cfgh, "<", $ARGV[0]) or die "error opening config file: $!\n";
		my $bash_hash = "declare -A $cfg=(";
		while (<$cfgh>) {
			chomp;
			m{^\s+ \" ([^"]+) \":\s+ \"? ([^"]+) \"? ,\s*$}x and do {
				my ($name, $value) = ($1, $2);
				$bash_hash .= qq{[$name]=\"$value\" };
	 		};
		}
		print "$bash_hash )\n";
	 ' "$cfg" "$fl"
}

if [[ $# -ge 2 ]]; then 
	eval $(read_json_config "$1" "$2")
fi
eval $(read_json_config Config "$tmd_home/settings.json")



################################################################
# 'default' tmd_a_rgs:
#
[[ ${Config[blocklist-enabled]} =~ true ]] && blocklist="--blocklist"

[[ ${Config[download-dir]:-} ]] && 
												ddd="--download-dir ${Config[download-dir]}"

[[ ${config[incomplete-dir]:-} ]] &&
												icd="--incomplete-dir ${config[incomplete-dir]}"


### check for main data dirs being mounted

#[[ $ddd ]] 
dir1="${Config[download-dir]}"
#[[ $icd ]] 
dir2="${Config[incomplete-dir]}"

if [[ $dir1 && ! -d $dir1 || $dir2 && ! -d $dir2 ]]; then 
	echo "Fatal error: Torrent data directories are not found"
	echo "this may mean a disk is not mounted: will not proceed"
	rc_fail 1
	rc_status v
	exit 1
fi

## note -- if you don't want to configure one of these; just comment
# it out  - many of these will be set if it was able to
# read the json file from transmission's home dir.


tmda_config_dir="--config-dir $tmd_home"
tmda_dht="--dht"
tmda_encryption="--encryption-tolerated"
tmda_foreground="-f"
tmda_incomplete_dir="--incomplete-dir $tmd_home/data/Downloading/transmission$tmd_child"
tmda_local_peer_discovery="--lpd"
tmda_logfile="--logfile $tmd_log"
tmda_loglevel="--log-error"
if [[ -z "$etc_loglevel" || $etc_loglevel == none ]] ; then
	tmda_logfile="--logfile /dev/null"
else
	tmda_loglevel="--log-$etc_loglevel"
fi
tmda_pidfile="--pid-file $tmd_pidfile"
tmda_portmap="--no-portmap"


tmda_peer_port="${tmda_peer_port_number:+"--peerport $tmda_peer_port_number"}"
tmda_port="${tmda_port_number:+"--port $tmda_port_number"}"

tmda_rpc_allowed_access="--allowed 192.168.4.*,192.168.3.*,127.0.0.1"

tmda_seedratio_glob="--no-global-seedratio"
tmda_watchdir="--no-watch-dir"

tmd_args="	${tmda_blocklist:-}
			${tmda_complete_dir:-}
			${tmda_config_dir:-}
			${tmda_dht:-}
			${tmda_encryption:-}
			${tmda_foreground:-}
			${tmda_incomplete_dir:-}
			${tmda_local_peer_discovery:-}
			${tmda_logfile:-}
			${tmda_loglevel:-}
			${tmda_peerlimit_glob:-}
			${tmda_peerlimit_per_torrent:-}
			${tmda_peerport:-}
			${tmda_port:-}
			${tmda_pidfile:-}
			${tmda_portmap:-}
			${tmda_rpc_allowed_access:-}
			${tmda_rpc_user:-}
			${tmda_rpc_userpw:-}
			${tmda_rpc_auth:-}
			${tmda_seedratio_glob:-}
			${tmda_watchdir:-}
		"

#open file limit for our machine

ulimit -Hn16384
ulimit -Sn16384
ulimit -n 16384


ionice_bin=$(type -P ionice)

# Check for existence of config files; 
# read system first

# possibility of a system config... (I don't have one)
test -r "${tmd_sys_config:-""}"  && . "$tmd_sys_config"
tmd_sys_config="/etc/sysconfig/transmission$tmd_child"
# then read home-dir-config if present

# I put my config in the 'tmd' daemon's home dir.
# in an "etc" directory, in "rc-config"


tmd_home_config="$tmd_home/etc/rc-config"
test -r "$tmd_home_config"  && . "$tmd_home_config"

tmd_etc="${tmd_etc:-"$tmd_home/etc"}"
tmd_log_level_file="${tmd_log_level_file:-"$tmd_etc/log_level"}"

#not sure how we could get this far w/o tmd_user not being set.

if [[ -z ${tmd_user:-} ]]; then 
	echo "tmd_user not set!"
	exit -1
fi
if [[ -z ${tmd_group:-} ]]; then 
	echo "User \"$tmd_user\" has no group -- (no /etc/passwd?)"
	exit -1
fi
if [[ -z ${tmd_home:-} ]]; then
	echo "Configuration error: user \"$tmd_user\" has no home dir "
	exit -1
fi


# Now  read possible config options out of tmd user dir (I don't
# use this as all my config vals are the defaults in this script! ;-)
# but I DID use it to turn on options (debug and such) at times
# in the past.
# will look for a "environ" dir to read in "environment vars"
# that you want to set for transmission (if any; if you
# are doing development on it -- some debug options can be set in ENV


# read env options...
tmd_env="${tmd_env:-"$tmd_home/environ"}"

if [[ -d $tmd_env ]]; then
	if [[ ! -r $tmd_env || ! -x $tmd_env ]]; then
		echo "Environment directory $tmd_env exists, but isn't readable"
		echo "Environment variables will be ignored"
	else 
    cd $tmd_env;
		readarray vars <<<$(find . -type f -name '[^.]*' -print|tr )
		if ((${#vars[*]}>0)); then
			for var in "${vars[@]}" ; do
				echo "var=$var"
				export $var=$(<"$var")
			done
			cd - >/dev/null
		fi
	fi
fi

# so note -- the tmd_secrets file can be anywhere -- it may
# have been set in the tmd_environ's to anything, but it defaults
# to a .secrets DIRECTORY in tmd_home

# may be set by tmd_env	  
# since this start script runs as root, these files probably don't
# have to be readable by anyone

# note -- I don't use a passwd on mine since it's interface is only
# open on an internal network


tmd_secrets="${tmd_secrets:-"$tmd_home/.secrets"}"
tmd_usr_file="$tmd_secrets/.tmd_user"
tmd_upw_file="$tmd_secrets/.tmd_userpw"

if [[ -r $tmd_usr_file ]]; then
	tmda_rpc_user="$(<$tmd_usr_file)"
fi

tmda_rpc_user="${tmda_rpc_user:+"--username $tmda_rpc_user"}"

if [[ -r $tmd_upw_file ]]; then
	tmda_rpc_userpw="$(<$tmd_upw_file)"
fi
tmda_rpc_userpw="${tmda_rpc_userpw:+"--password $tmda_rpc_userpw"}"
if [[ -n ${tmda_rpc_user:-""} && -n ${tmda_rpc_userpw:-""}  ]]; then
	tmda_rpc_auth="--auth"
fi


# some util that lets you start scripts as a user/var and such...


# non configurable vars go after here...
#startproc
stprc="/sbin/startproc"
[[ ! -e $stprc ]] && stprc=$(which startproc)
[[ ! -e $stprc ]] && { echo "Fatal: startproc not found" >&2; exit 1 ; }
#startproc's arg list....
startproc_args=" -l $tmd_output_log -p $tmd_pidfile -u $tmd_user -g $tmd_group -n $tmd_nice"

test -x $tmd_bin || { echo "$tmd_bin not installed"; 
	if [ "$1" = "stop" ]; then exit 0;
	else exit 5; fi; }

sp_args="$startproc_args"

# Shell functions sourced from /etc/rc.status:
#	   rc_check			check and set local and overall rc status
#	   rc_status		check and set local and overall rc status
#	   rc_status -v		be verbose in local rc status and clear it afterwards
#	   rc_status -v -r	ditto and clear both the local and overall rc status
#	   rc_status -s		display "skipped" and exit with status 3
#	   rc_status -u		display "unused" and exit with status 3
#	   rc_failed		set local and overall rc status to failed
#	   rc_failed <num>	set local and overall rc status to <num>
#	   rc_reset			clear both the local and overall rc status
#	   rc_exit			exit appropriate to overall rc status
#	   rc_active		checks whether a service is activated by symlinks
set +e +u		# rc.status has buggy code
. /etc/rc.status	# SuSE's common run script env (only necessary for
									# defining "rc_xxxx" commands below that set status or exit
#set 

# Reset status of this service
rc_reset					# set's startup value to 'ok'

cd $tmd_home || {
	/bin/false
	rc_status -v		# set bad status verbosely and leave
	rc_exit 
}

running=0
if [[ $1 != status ]]; then
	/sbin/checkproc -p $tmd_pidfile $tmd_bin
	running=$?
	if [[ $running == 0 ]]; then running=1
	else running=0
	fi
fi

case "$1" in
	start)
		if (($running)) ; then
			echo -n "Transmission already running... "
		else 
			echo -n "Starting transmissiond "
			## Start daemon with startproc(8). If thikks fails
			## the return value is set appropriately by startproc.
			if [[ -n "$tr_umask" ]]; then
				umask $tr_umask
			fi
			all_args="$startproc_args $tmd_bin $tmd_args"
			if [[ -x $ionice_bin && -n "${tmd_ionicep:-}" ]]; then
				$ionice_bin $tmd_ionicep $stprc $all_args
			else
				$stprc $all_args
			fi
		fi

		# Remember status and be verbose
		rc_status -v
		;;
	stop)
		if ((!$running)) ; then
			echo -n "Transmission is already stopped... "
		else 
			echo -n "Shutting down transmissiond "
			## Stop daemon with killproc(8) and if this fails
			## killproc sets the return value according to LSB.

			/sbin/killproc -t 10 -p $tmd_pidfile -TERM $tmd_bin || {
				echo -n "Sending Kill..."
				/sbin/killproc -p $tmd_pidfile -t 1 -KILL $tmd_bin
			}
		fi
		# Remember status and be verbose
		rc_status -v
		;;
	try-restart|condrestart)
		## Do a restart only if the service was active before.
		## Note: try-restart is now part of LSB (as of 1.9).
		## RH has a similar command named condrestart.
		if test "$1" = "condrestart"; then
			echo -n "${attn} Use try-restart ${done}(LSB)${attn} "
			echo    "rather than condrestart ${warn}(RH)${norm}"
		fi
		$0 status
		if test $? = 0; then
			$0 restart
		else
			rc_reset		# Not running is not a failure.
		fi
		# Remember status and be quiet
		rc_status
		;;
	restart)
		## Stop the service and regardless of whether it was
		## running or not, start it again.
		$0 stop
		$0 start

		# Remember status and be quiet
		rc_status
		;;
	status)
		echo -n "Checking for service transmission-daemon${tmd_child} "
		## Check status with checkproc(8), if<F5><F5> process is running
		## checkproc will return with exit status 0.

		# Return value is slightly different for the status command:
		# 0 - service up and running
		# 1 - service dead, but /var/run/  pid	file exists
		# 2 - service dead, but /var/lock/ lock file exists
		# 3 - service not running (unused)
		# 4 - service status unknown :-(
		# 5--199 reserved (5--99 LSB, 100--149 distro, 150--199 appl.)
		
		# NOTE: checkproc returns LSB compliant status values.
		/sbin/checkproc -p $tmd_pidfile $tmd_bin
		# NOTE: rc_status knows that we called this init script with
		# "status" option and adapts its messages accordingly.
		rc_status -v
		;;
	probe)
		## Optional: Probe for the necessity of a reload, print out the
		## argument to this init script which is required for a reload.
		## Note: probe is not (yet) part of LSB (as of 1.9)

		if [[ $tmd_sys_config -nt $tmd_pidfile ||
			$tmd_home_config -nt $tmd_pidfile ]]; then 
			echo reload
	   	fi
		;;
	*)
		echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|try-restart|restart|probe}"
		exit 1
		;;
esac
rc_exit
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