Transmission

I'm having some trouble with my transmission-daemon, and I think it has to do with the fact that I recently set it up to run as "guest" user (which is my public user on the media server).
I copied the .config folder from /root to the guest user's home directory, and I modified the startup script to use that new .config folder. However, now there are several problems:

* I'm not seeing any .torrent files in the .config/transmission-daemon/torrents folder. Or the .../resume folder either. I thought they might still be in the /root subdir, but those are all empty too. The torrents do start running, and I can download the data, but I never see the original .torrent files anywhere. Which brings me to my second problem...

* Rather often my daemon becomes unresponsive. I must go in and restart it by hand, but the problem is that all the .torrent files are gone, so anything that I was downloading will need to be re-added by hand. This is extremely frustrating.

* A final issue is that I can't figure out how to set up the startup script to run AS the "guest" user. Right now if I restart the machine, I need to ssh in and start the daemon as "guest" by hand. I suppose that's more of a Linux forum question, but I thought I'd throw it out there.

I'm running the 1.72 transmission build on the WD My Book World Edition (White light).
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

Your first problem is permissions; you copied the config directory as root and didn't change ownership... assuming you have bash, the user and the group is guest (I use nobody:nogroup), as root try something like this: To use of user "guest" to run the daemon you have to modify the start script, I don't know how your init.d script looks like (or how it is named) since there is no standard, but if it uses start-stop-daemon then you can do it like this: If you don't use start-stop-daemon then instead do something like this: Check the details since all this was just a rough draft, not the exact code.