How to keep transmission completely silent at certain time?

[netvope]

I've disabled DHT and set the speed limits to zero from 9 AM to 5 PM. However, even if I stop all torrents and disconnect all control interfaces (web/rpc), transmission-daemon still communicates via the network. I don't know if it's talking to trackers or peers, but nethogs reports a <1KB/s bandwidth usage for it.

Is it possible to make transmission-daemon completely silent (with regard to bittorrent traffic) without shutting it down? From 9 AM to 5 PM, I want to be able to browse the torrents via rpc, but don't want it to participate in any file sharing activity.

Version: transmission-daemon 2.22
OS: Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit

[gunzip]

that small bit of activity you're seeing might be due to the scraping of paused torrents, which is default behavior of transmission. however in version 2.40 a hidden setting in settings.json

scrape-paused-torrents-enabled

allows you to turn it off. so upgrading your version from 2.22 might help a bit.

[netvope]

Thanks a lot!

Now I'll have to build transmission by myself (which is not completely trivial because Ubuntu 8.04 seem to lacks many dependencies)

BTW, I think it may be a good idea to add an actual "stop" state to transmission (as opposed to just a "paused" state which still contacts the trackers by default)

References:
scrape-paused-torrents-enabled: https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/Ed ... Files#Misc
Scrapping explained: http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Scrape

[netvope]

It turns out it's not too difficult to build transmission 2.42 on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 x86. I did the following:

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prefix=$HOME/build
cd /dev/shm
wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/libevent-2.0.15-stable.tar.gz
tar -xzf libevent-2.0.15-stable.tar.gz
cd libevent-2.0.15-stable/
./configure --prefix=$prefix
make
make install
cd ..
wget http://download.transmissionbt.com/files/transmission-2.42.tar.bz2
tar -xf transmission-2.42.tar.bz2
cd transmission-2.42
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev intltool
LIBEVENT_LIBS="-L$prefix/lib" LIBEVENT_CFLAGS="-levent -I$prefix/include" ./configure --prefix=$prefix --enable-utp --enable-cli --enable-daemon --without-gtk
make
make install

Hope this will help someone

The only thing not working properly is that if I specify -e (logfile) and -f (foreground) together, transmission-daemon will print nothing on the screen. Not sure if this change in behavior is a bug, by design, or due to my mistakes in building the binary.

I can confirm that scrape-paused-torrents-enabled does keep transmission slient.

(btw, if anyone know how to get pkg-config to recognize my libevent libraries so that I can build without LIBEVENT_LIBS and LIBEVENT_CFLAGS, please let me know)

[gunzip]

The only thing not working properly is that if I specify -e (logfile) and -f (foreground) together, transmission-daemon will print nothing on the screen. Not sure if this change in behavior is a bug, by design, or due to my mistakes in building the binary.

I believe that is expected daemon behavior, you can print to foreground or logfile but not both. They are mutually exclusive options.

[netvope]

I believe that is expected daemon behavior, you can print to foreground or logfile but not both. They are mutually exclusive options.

Oh you're right. I thought 2.22 printed to both simultaneously.

So the -e switch is effectively just output redirection to a file.