Overview:In this small tutorial I will explain how to use transmission-daemon with more advanced tools and techniques giving you greater power over your torrent client/server.
You will learn how to use transmission-remote for advanced command line usage. How to manually limit each torrents up or down limit. and even seed ratio limit, and much much more! This will give you that "edge" over you're torrent client/server that you always wanted.
You will also for quickness still be able to access it's standard web gui for quick configuration, and you will learn how to work both the web GUI, and command line together seamlessly.
With both command line knowledge of transmission and the webui, you will be able to have far greater control than the standard GUI client or web client. As all features will become available to you.
Transmission-Daemon runs in the background, and so you're task bar won't be cluttered up with torrent clients. This gives you the ability to also appear not to be downloading unless somebody knows where to look for it ;-)
Requirements:
In order for this tutorial to be of any use to you, you must first have access to, or know the following things. Without them, this simply will not work.
This tutorial is intended for the Linux version of Transmission, this may work with the MAC version, however I cannot personally test this. So for now I am marking GNU/Linux as a requirement.
Obviously you will need transmission it's self, this tutorial is written based on version 2.42 older versions may differ slightly, so if you can also keep to the same version that'd be great. At time of writing this tutorial 2.42 was the latest stable build.
- Internet Connection
- Some basic knowledge of how to use GNU/Linux command line interface.
- Network ports open and ready.
- Knowledge of bittorrent protocol, and general bittorrent information what it is etc..
Optional:
These optional extras will be needed for some of the installation information, however this tutorial can still be used without them and they are not required
- RPM/YUM based Linux distribution such as Fedora.
The transmission installation instructions are written using yum and known-working commands for Fedora. I highly recommend this to be your OS of choice if following this tutorial. However, this is only needed for initial set-up of transmission. If you can handle that on your own, then you can still use this tutorial. For say, use on Debian.
- Understanding of SSH and it's usage
Only needed if you wish to remotely control transmission from another machine via command line. SSH set-up instructions will not be provided in this tutorial. You are expected to already know how to use SSH if this is what you plan on doing. Again, it is not required, and this tutorial is written for local transmission usage. All commands specific for transmission however can be used in ssh.
- Access to the root account
Only required if you need to install transmission using the installation instructions below. If you already have transmission-daemon & transmission-remote installed and running/working root is not required.
Getting Started:So if you meet all the requirements above, you can safely carry on reading. If however you do not meet "optional" please skip to "using".
Installation:
So before we can do anything, we need to install transmission and friends! If you have any other instances open such as transmission-gtk or transmission-qt please close them fully before continuing.
Step 1:
Open a terminal window..
Step 2:
Type the following command to become root user:
Step 3:
Use yum to install transmission stuff like so:
Code:
$ yum install transmission-common transmission-daemon transmission-remote-cli
If you was able to successfully complete the steps above, good news everybody! Now to setup transmission to actually start.
Initial Setup/Configuration:
So we have the introductory out of the way. But now we need to make it come alive so we can do our evil laugh and say "IT'S ALIVE!!1!!!!11!!! MUHAHAAHAHA"
By default transmission-daemon will automatically start on "http://localhost:9091/transmission/web/"
So lets try to bring it up on it's default configuration with the following command:
Code:
$ service transmission-daemon start
Error after running above command? Post a reply and let me know!
Did it start? Great! Now try getting to the URL I mentioned above in firefox. You should be presented with the webui like so:
So while we are sitting at the webui now would be a good time to get the basic configuration out of the way. Due to the nature of this forum, being about invites to trackers, I will assume you are using private trackers.
It is a well known fact private trackers do not want PEX and DHT running, besides it can mess with you statistics on a tracker. So I will be telling you to turn them off.
So in the webui, you will see in the bottom left hand corner a gear button, and next to it a turtle button, press the gears button.
at this point a menu should have popped up. If it did not, you're doing it wrong. If it did, click preferences.
You will see a this dialog with the following options below I will add my recommended defaults. Feel free to modify to suit your needs:
Torrents:
Speed:
Peers:
Network:
With private trackers I highly reccomend you match my DHT and PEX settings. Otherwise you risk being banned due to potentionally false statistics being reported.
Usage:
Now we move onto the actual usage of this sucker, enough set-up talk, now it is time to learn a thing or two!
Ladies and girls, I introduce you to transmission remote!
The basic --help output of transmission-remote:
Code:
$ transmission-remote --help
transmission-remote 2.42 (13013)
A fast and easy BitTorrent client
http://www.transmissionbt.com/
Usage: transmission-remote [host] [options]
transmission-remote [port] [options]
transmission-remote [host:port] [options]
transmission-remote [http://host:port/transmission/] [options]
See the man page for detailed explanations and many examples.
Options:
-h --help Display this help page and exit
-a --add Add torrent files by filename or URL
-as --alt-speed Use the alternate Limits
-AS --no-alt-speed Don't use the alternate Limits
-asd --alt-speed-downlimit <speed> max alternate download speed (in
KiB/s)
-asu --alt-speed-uplimit <speed> max alternate upload speed (in
KiB/s)
-asc --alt-speed-scheduler Use the scheduled on/off times
-ASC --no-alt-speed-scheduler Don't use the scheduled on/off times
--alt-speed-time-begin <time> Time to start using the alt speed
limits (in hhmm)
--alt-speed-time-end <time> Time to stop using the alt speed
limits (in hhmm)
--alt-speed-days <days> Numbers for any/all days of the week
- eg. "1-7"
--blocklist-update Blocklist update
-c --incomplete-dir <dir> Where to store new torrents until
they're complete
-C --no-incomplete-dir Don't store incomplete torrents in a
different location
-b --debug Print debugging information
-d --downlimit <speed> Set the max download speed in KiB/s
for the current torrent(s) or
globally
-D --no-downlimit Disable max download speed for the
current torrent(s) or globally
-e --cache <size> Set the maximum size of the session's
memory cache (in MiB)
-er --encryption-required Encrypt all peer connections
-ep --encryption-preferred Prefer encrypted peer connections
-et --encryption-tolerated Prefer unencrypted peer connections
--exit Tell the transmission session to shut
down
-f --files List the current torrent(s)' files
-g --get <files> Mark files for download
-G --no-get <files> Mark files for not downloading
-i --info Show the current torrent(s)' details
-if --info-files List the current torrent(s)' files
-ip --info-peers List the current torrent(s)' peers
-ic --info-pieces List the current torrent(s)' pieces
-it --info-trackers List the current torrent(s)'
trackers
-si --session-info Show the session's details
-st --session-stats Show the session's statistics
-l --list List all torrents
--move <path> Move current torrent's data to a new
folder
--find <path> Tell Transmission where to find a
torrent's data
-m --portmap Enable portmapping via NAT-PMP or
UPnP
-M --no-portmap Disable portmapping
-n --auth <user:pw> Set username and password
-ne --authenv Set authentication info from the
TR_AUTH environment variable
(user:pw)
-N --netrc <file> Set authentication info from a .netrc
file
--ssl Use SSL when talking to daemon
-o --dht Enable distributed hash tables (DHT)
-O --no-dht Disable distributed hash tables
(DHT)
-p --port <port> Port for incoming peers (Default:
51413)
-pt --port-test Port testing
-P --random-port Random port for incomping peers
-ph --priority-high <files> Try to download these file(s) first
-pn --priority-normal <files> Try to download these file(s)
normally
-pl --priority-low <files> Try to download these file(s) last
-Bh --bandwidth-high Give this torrent first chance at
available bandwidth
-Bn --bandwidth-normal Give this torrent bandwidth left over
by high priority torrents
-Bl --bandwidth-low Give this torrent bandwidth left over
by high and normal priority torrents
--reannounce Reannounce the current torrent(s)
-r --remove Remove the current torrent(s)
-pr --peers <max> Set the maximum number of peers for
the current torrent(s) or globally
--remove-and-delete Remove the current torrent(s) and
delete local data
--torrent-done-script <file> Specify a script to run when a
torrent finishes
--no-torrent-done-script Don't run a script when torrents
finish
-sr --seedratio ratio Let the current torrent(s) seed until
a specific ratio
-srd --seedratio-default Let the current torrent(s) use the
global seedratio settings
-SR --no-seedratio Let the current torrent(s) seed
regardless of ratio
-gsr --global-seedratio ratio All torrents, unless overridden by a
per-torrent setting, should seed
until a specific ratio
-GSR --no-global-seedratio All torrents, unless overridden by a
per-torrent setting, should seed
regardless of ratio
-td --tracker-add <tracker> Add a tracker to a torrent
-tr --tracker-remove <trackerId> Remove a tracker from a torrent
-s --start Start the current torrent(s)
-S --stop Stop the current torrent(s)
-t --torrent <torrent> Set the current torrent(s)
--start-paused Start added torrents paused
--no-start-paused Start added torrents unpaused
--trash-torrent Delete torrents after adding
--no-trash-torrent Do not delete torrents after adding
-hl --honor-session Make the current torrent(s) honor the
session limits
-HL --no-honor-session Make the current torrent(s) not honor
the session limits
-u --uplimit <speed> Set the max upload speed in KiB/s for
the current torrent(s) or globally
-U --no-uplimit Disable max upload speed for the
current torrent(s) or globally
--utp Enable uTP for peer connections
--no-utp Disable uTP for peer connections
-v --verify Verify the current torrent(s)
-V --version Show version number and exit
-w --download-dir <path> When adding a new torrent, set its
download folder. Otherwise, set the
default download folder
-x --pex Enable peer exchange (PEX)
-X --no-pex Disable peer exchange (PEX)
-y --lpd Enable local peer discovery (LPD)
-Y --no-lpd Disable local peer discovery (LPD)
-pi --peer-info List the current torrent(s)' peers
Isn't she beautiful?
but now I fear some of you could be looking at the above, and thinking "What do I do with all of those? how do I use them?!"
Well, by the time I am done, you won't need to look at that list ever again!
. (Hopefully)
Adding A Torrent
There are two ways of doing this. Personally I prefer to add via the webui. So I will demonstrate both.
WebUI Method:
Open your browser and go to this url:
http://localhost:9091/transmission/web/
You will now see a button on top left hand side that says "open" (really you can't miss it) you will be presented with the following dialog:
Choose either a local torrent file, or webtorrent file/magnet link as you like, and click add (I'd probably suggest to leave "Start when added" unticked as well. And click "Add"
Now you have added your first torrent! Congratulations!
Transmission-Remote Method:
Now, as this is the first time I am demonstrating to you how to connect to your transmission via transmission-remote, I will add some more information as to how to actually connect in the first place. It's easy really.
Generally, connecting to transmission should be easy. As by default it looks for a local instance of transmission-daemon, i.e. looks for localhost:9091.
So to see if it has found your instance automatically run:
Code:
$ transmission-remote -st
CURRENT SESSION
Uploaded: 2.56 GiB
Downloaded: 2.10 GiB
Ratio: 1.21
Duration: 1 day, 6 hours
TOTAL
Started 105 times
Uploaded: 40.19 GiB
Downloaded: 38.94 GiB
Ratio: 1.03
Duration: 87 days
Your session stats should print zero however, unless you have already been using it and had it set up.
If however your connection attempt hangs, it means it failed to connect.
Generally speaking, you can again try this command and assuming you have transmission on that port, it should work, if you changed the port, then use that port in the following command:
Code:
$ transmission-remote localhost:9091 -st
CURRENT SESSION
Uploaded: 2.57 GiB
Downloaded: 2.10 GiB
Ratio: 1.22
Duration: 1 day, 6 hours
TOTAL
Started 105 times
Uploaded: 40.20 GiB
Downloaded: 38.94 GiB
Ratio: 1.03
Duration: 87 days
So, if that one worked for you, from now on you will need to add the <host>:<port> to every command you do. If however it worked without the <host>:<port> you can safely carry on doing what you where doing without adding them from now on.
In this tutorial I will be doing commands without them, so do not forget the add <host>:<port> like demonstrated above if it was needed.
Okay, so now let's add a torrent! Note: Helps make sure torrent file is in current work directory, or else you will need to provide full path to it.
Code:
$ transmission-remote localhost:9091 -a atorrent.torrent --start-paused
Note: Helps make sure torrent file is in current work directory, or else you will need to provide full path to it.
if all went well, the output should have been:
Code:
localhost:9091/transmission/rpc/ responded: "success"
localhost:9091/transmission/rpc/ responded: "success"
If it all went well: Congratulations, you now know how to add a torrent!
Another handy thing you will notice is, if you add a torrent that the data already exists for in your assigned download directory, transmission will automatically verify it's data and continue, or if it's a new .torrent file from a different tracker, it will verify, and outside seed to the new tracker. This makes outside seeding super easy.
Listing Torrents:
The Webui by default lists all of your torrents and there stats. So to see the torrent list in webui, just go to the webui!
Transmission-Remote:
The Listing of torrents is actually rather easy in this method as well, to list your current torrents run the following command:
Code:
$ transmission-remote -l
Note: Remember, if you had to use <host>:<port> in previous section, you will need it again, you will have to add it before "-l" see above instructions if you have forgotten how.
This should give you an output like so:
Code:
ID Done Have ETA Up Down Ratio Status Name
1 100% 1.39 GiB Unknown 0.0 0.0 0.79 Idle Torrent 1
2 100% 52.70 MiB Done 0.0 0.0 1.50 Finished Torrent 2
3 100% 1.37 GiB Done 0.0 0.0 1.20 Finished Torrent 3
4 100% 717.4 MiB Unknown 0.0 0.0 0.90 Idle Torrent 4
6 100% 2.54 GiB Unknown 0.0 0.0 0.25 Idle Torrent 5
7 100% 2.24 GiB Unknown 0.0 0.0 0.56 Seeding Torrent 6
10 100% 2.24 GiB Unknown 0.0 0.0 0.14 Idle Torrent 7
11 100% 1.38 GiB Done 0.0 0.0 1.20 Finished Torrent 8
12 100% 1.20 GiB Unknown 0.0 0.0 1.06 Idle Torrent 9
13 100% 1.89 GiB Done 0.0 0.0 0.42 Stopped Torrent 10
14 100% 48.00 MiB Unknown 0.0 0.0 8.77 Idle Torrent 11
15 100% 1.30 GiB Done 0.0 0.0 0.06 Finished Torrent 12
17 100% 984.7 MiB Done 0.0 0.0 0.44 Finished Torrent 13
18 100% 1.89 GiB Unknown 0.0 0.0 0.01 Idle Torrent 14
19 100% 2.24 GiB Unknown 0.0 0.0 0.00 Idle Torrent 15
20 100% 1.20 GiB Unknown 0.0 0.0 0.00 Idle Torrent 16K
21 100% 1.89 GiB Unknown 0.0 0.0 0.00 Idle Torrent 17
22 100% 2.54 GiB Unknown 0.0 0.0 0.03 Idle Torrent 18
25 100% 1.37 GiB Unknown 0.0 0.0 0.00 Idle Torrent 19
26 100% 2.09 GiB 6 days 35.0 0.0 0.85 Seeding Torrent 20
27 100% 1.38 GiB Done 0.0 0.0 0.00 Stopped Torrent 21
Sum: 31.91 GiB 35.0 0.0
Note: My output is censored.
PS: A lot are duplicates, and outside seeded ;-)
And there you go ladies and ladies, one list of torrents
Torrent Information:
So just how do you see the full flat-out hardcore hot information of a torrent?! Wonder no more kids! for today, you will learn an ancient art of Chinese masters.. wait hold on that's not right.. I wasn't supposed to write that part. Oh Well!
Moving on..
Viewing Information using the WebUI:
To view information on the web ui, click the torrent you wish to view the information for, and click the big "I" information symbol in the top right hand corner. Screenshot below shows you how:
As you can see there are 5 tabs on it, each contains different information, go ahead, browse through them
They are mostly self explanatory.
Viewing Information using Transmission-Remote:
As you probably noticed, the WebUI information was quite limited wasn't it? So if you really want to see the full information you have to view it via the command line..
Now for this we have several "flags" to do this with, I will demonstrate use with all of them. Each is optional. namely the "-i" flag is the basic information.
You will need to use "-l" to find the torrent number which you will need to add after the "-t" flag which I have demonstrated below.
So if you want to view all information, including peers, trackers, etc all in one hit, run the following command:
Code:
$ transmission-remote -t 26 -i -ip -if -it
NAME
Id: 26
Name: XXX XXXX
Hash: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
TRANSFER
State: Seeding
Location: /downloads
Percent Done: 100%
ETA: 6 days
Download Speed: 0 KiB/s
Upload Speed: 35 KiB/s
Have: 2.XX GiB (2.XX GiB verified)
Availability: 100%
Total size: 207.X GiB (2.09 GiB wanted)
Downloaded: 2.XX GiB
Uploaded: 1.84 GiB
Ratio: 0.87
Corrupt DL: None
Peers: connected to 3, uploading to 2, downloading from 0
HISTORY
Date added: Thu Jan 26 XX:XX:XX 2012
Date finished: Thu Jan 26 13:XX:31 2012
Date started: Thu Jan 26 XX:XX:XX 2012
Latest activity: Fri Jan 27 12:30:32 2012
Downloading Time: 2 hours, 33 minutes
Seeding Time: 22 hours
ORIGINS
Date created: Tue Jan 24 00:XX:XX 2012
Public torrent: No
Creator: ruTorrent (PHP Class - Adrien Gibrat)
Piece Count: 13296
Piece Size: 16.00 MiB
LIMITS & BANDWIDTH
Download Limit: Unlimited
Upload Limit: Unlimited
Ratio Limit: 10.00
Honors Session Limits: Yes
Peer limit: 300
Bandwidth Priority: High
Address Flags Done Down Up Client
xx.xxx.xx.xxx UEI 3.2 0.0 17.0 µTorrent 3.0.0
xx.xxx.xxx.xxx ?EI 14.1 0.0 0.0 µTorrent 2.0.2
xxx.xx.x.xxx UEI 2.1 0.0 17.0 µTorrent 2.0.3
spy films (295 files):
# Done Priority Get Size Name
0: 0% Normal No 4.35 GiB File 1
294: 0% Normal No 701.9 MiB File 2
Tracker 0: http://tracker.iptorrents.ru:6969
Active in tier 0
Got a list of 36 peers 12 minutes ago
Asking for more peers in 17 minutes
Tracker had 12 seeders and 24 leechers 12 minutes ago
Asking for peer counts in 17 minutes
Tracker 1: http://tracker.iptorrents.me:2710
Active in tier 1
Got a list of 36 peers 18 minutes ago
Asking for more peers in 11 minutes
Tracker had 12 seeders and 24 leechers 18 minutes ago
Asking for peer counts in 11 minutes
Tracker 2: http://tracker.iptorrents.com:2790
Active in tier 2
Got a list of 36 peers 13 minutes ago
Asking for more peers in 16 minutes
Tracker had 12 seeders and 24 leechers 13 minutes ago
Asking for peer counts in 16 minutes
Note: And of course, it is censored. Yes I am aware -ic was not used. I did not think it was necessary to demonstrate that. But if you wish to use "-ic" try it
Q: But what does "-i" "-it" -"if" "-ic" "-ip" mean?! and is there an "-IQ"?
A:
The "-i" flag stands for "information" this gives you the basic information.
The "-it" stands for "information trackers" this gives you the information on trackers.
The "-if" stands for information files" this gives you the information on files.
The "-ic" flag gives you the information on the pieces. An alternative is "--info-pieces" it is named ic instead of ip because ip is used by something else.
The "-ip" flag stands for "information peers" this gives you the information on your fellow peers.
There is no IQ command
Speeding Torrents:
Officer! That torrent is speeding!
Ever find you have a torrent that is going off in it's own merry way hogging all the damn bandwidth from other torrents you need to seed? Sadly in webui there is no option to stop this, however, fear not, we have transmission-remote to the rescue!
Setting Speed limits with transmission-remote:
Sadly, sometimes you need to take some bandwidth away from one seeding (or downloading..) torrent and give it to another torrent. But how?! Manual capping!
So at this point, you should know how to follow these instructions:
Use transmission remote to list all of your torrents, then find the one that is downloading the most, select the torrent and view it's basic information. You will see if it already has caps, if it does not it's time to set one!
So in my case, torrent 26 is using all my daily overall capped upload speed, this is bad! I think I'll cap it to just 20KBs upload. So I will use the "-u" flag as shown below:
Code:
$ transmission-remote -t 26 -u 20
9 out of 10 times, when you set an option with transmission remote you'll just get a success message like the one below:
Code:
localhost:9091/transmission/rpc/ responded: "success"
So if we view the basic information of that torrent:
Code:
NAME
Id: 26
Name: XXX
Hash: 00000000000000000000000000000000000000
TRANSFER
State: Seeding
Location: /downloads
Percent Done: 100%
ETA: 11 days
Download Speed: 0 KiB/s
Upload Speed: 20 KiB/s
Have: 2.XX GiB (2.XX GiB verified)
Availability: 100%
Total size: 207.X GiB (2.XX GiB wanted)
Downloaded: 2.XX GiB
Uploaded: 1.91 GiB
Ratio: 0.91
Corrupt DL: None
Peers: connected to 3, uploading to 2, downloading from 0
HISTORY
Date added: Thu Jan 26 XX:XX:20 2012
Date finished: Thu Jan 26 XX:XX:31 2012
Date started: Thu Jan 26 XX:XX:27 2012
Latest activity: Fri Jan 27 XX:XX:11 2012
Downloading Time: 2 hours, 33 minutes
Seeding Time: 23 hours
ORIGINS
Date created: Tue Jan 24 00:XX:XX 2012
Public torrent: No
Creator: ruTorrent (PHP Class - Adrien Gibrat)
Piece Count: 13296
Piece Size: 16.00 MiB
LIMITS & BANDWIDTH
Download Limit: Unlimited
Upload Limit: 20 KiB/s
Ratio Limit: 10.00
Honors Session Limits: Yes
Peer limit: 300
Bandwidth Priority: High
You can now see it is limited to 20KBs up, and it is only uploading at 20KB's up. This means other torrents can use the bandwidth.
But what if, you want to remove that limit? other torrent finished? That can be done to!
What you will need is "-U" flag without any additional parameters.
Code:
transmission-remote -t 26 -U
If you run information again, you would now see there is no bandwidth limit and it is set to "Unlimited".
So that is basically how you set and remove speed limits. For downloading, it is exactly the same except you will use "-d" and "-D" in replacement of "-u" and "-U".
Setting Bandwidth Priority with Transmission-Remote:
If you do not want to manually set speed limits, and you want to try priorities, you can do that too!
But how?! This one is pretty easy actually. However cannot be done via webui.
So what you need to remember is "B" stands for bandwidth" while you have 3 modes "High" "Low" "Normal"
So 1+1 = command.
So for example "Bandwidth normal" becomes "-Bn" and "Bandwidth high" becomes "-Bh" you see where I'm doing with this? I've said it this way so you can remember it.
So lets try it:
Code:
transmission-remote -t 26 -Bh
If you go view the information of your torrent, with transmission-remote you will see it is now reporting the bandwidth to be high.
Replace -Bh with -Bn and it becomes normal, -Bl becomes "low". It's really that simple..
Seeding Ratio:
Ever tried part seeding? Where you download one single part say, a 14MB file, and upload about 300/400MB? that doesn't work so well if you have your overall ratio limit set. As transmission will stop when your ratio of downloaded "14MB" becomes 1.20 (Your ratio limit)
So how do we fix this so it does not stop so damn soon? Well we set a per-torrent seed ratio.
Again, cannot be done via webui (Now you can see why I reccomend you use transmision-remote aswell)
Setting Per-Torrent Ratio Limit via Transmission-Remote:
This is actually pretty goshdarned easy. We use the flag "-sr" which stands for "stop ratio". Here is an example of it being used:
Code:
transmission-remote -t 26 -sr 5.00
As you can see, you set the ratio just as you read it. Viewing torrent information you will see it is now applied.
To set it back to default we use "-srd" so command becomes
Code:
transmission-remote -t 26 -srd
But what if I want to seed regardless of ratio? What if I don't want it to ever stop?
Well, we can do that by using "-SR".
Code:
transmission-remote -t 26 -SR
Q: Can I make the overall ratio unlimited too?
A: Yes.
Tracker Management
Be careful, with great power comes great responsibility. Misconfiguring anything when modifying trackers, could lead to you potentially being booted from a private tracker scene due to modifying stats. Why you may ask?
When you have multiple trackers on the same torrent it can cause stats to be incorrectly reported, sometimes more, sometimes less, and it can cause all kind of problems.
So avoid modifying the trackers when you can. Me I usually only ever remove trackers, I never add. (For example on Demonoid, I would remove all trackers except Demonoid's..)
Tracker Management is something you cannot do via the webui. But you can watch webui information on trackers and watch them appear/disappear if you want
Listing Trackers:
Before we do anything, we will need to know what trackers we have. To do this we use the "-it" flag.
So command becomes:
Code:
$ transmission-remote -t 26 -it
The output will be like so:
Code:
Tracker 0: http://tracker.iptorrents.ru:6969
Active in tier 0
Got a list of 39 peers 4 minutes ago
Asking for more peers in 25 minutes
Tracker had 12 seeders and 27 leechers 4 minutes ago
Asking for peer counts in 25 minutes
Tracker 1: http://tracker.iptorrents.me:2710
Active in tier 1
Got a list of 38 peers 10 minutes ago
Asking for more peers in 19 minutes
Tracker had 12 seeders and 26 leechers 10 minutes ago
Asking for peer counts in 19 minutes
Tracker 2: http://tracker.iptorrents.com:2790
Active in tier 2
Got a list of 39 peers 4 minutes ago
Asking for more peers in 25 minutes
Tracker had 12 seeders and 27 leechers 4 minutes ago
Asking for peer counts in 25 minutes
Removing Trackers:
Got to many trackers? Well in the above section you got the ID's of trackers, e. Tracker 1:
So to remove it, we would run:
Code:
$ transmission-remote -t 26 -tr 1
This would remove the second listed tracker (Where ID 0 is the first listed tracker)
Adding Trackers:
Not enough trackers? Well you can always add more (REALLY BAD IDEA ON PRIVATE TORRENTS!)
But fear not, I will tell you how young one.
So for this, we use "-
td" flag. Like so:
Code:
$ transmission-remote -t 26 -td http://tracker.iptorrents.com:2790
You will now have a new tracker, congratulations!
Moving Torrents & Verifying Data
Has your torrent data got bored of it's current house? does it want a new location? new folder views? Maybe next to the Desktop?
In this section, I will tell you how to move data, this cannot be done in WebUI.
Moving using transmission-remote
So, to move data, we will pretend our new data location is "/downloads2" so to do this we will run:
Code:
$ transmission-remote -t 27 --move /downloads2
That's it really.
Finding already moved data with transmission-remote
Did your data pop out prematurely? Not to worry, theres a fix for that!
So you need to tell transmission where the new data is. To do this you can run the command:
Code:
transmission-remote -t 27 --find /downloads
I highly recommend you verify after doing this and moving data.
Verifying Data
So if you have moved any data, it's a really good idea to get transmission to check that data and verify it.
To do this, run the following command:
Code:
transmission-remote -t 27 -v
Final Notes:This tutorial is not 100% complete, however for the most part it is "done". I wasn't sure what else other people would want to know, so I have left it open, what else is in the tutorial will be entirely on you guys, so if you think something else needs to be explained how to be used, drop a reply and let me know!
3Likes
LinkBack URL
About LinkBacks
Transmission-Daemon: Advanced Usage & Setup
Speed:
Peers:
Network:
Reply With Quote
