TRANSMISSION-DAEMON(1)

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💖 TRANSMISSION-DAEMON(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is the man page for transmission-daemon — literally a bittorrent client, no cap. it's giving headless server energy, and honestly? iconic. 🌈

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

transmission-daemon -h
transmission-daemon [-a x.x.x.x,...] [-b | -B] [-c directory] [-C] [-d]
                    [-f] [-g directory] [-h] [-p port] [-t | -T]
                    [-u username] [-v password] [-P port] [-m | -M]
                    [-l limit] [-L limit] [-er | -ep | -et]
                    [-utp | -no-utp] [-V] [-w download-dir] [-e logfile]
                    [-x pid-file] [-log-error | -log-info | -log-debug]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

transmission-daemon is a daemon-based Transmission session, periodt. the way it works is you control it via RPC commands — from transmission's web interface, or from transmission-remote(1). main character energy, honestly. 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -a, --allowed x.x.x.x,... — lets you allow RPC access to a comma-delimited whitelist of IP addresses. you can use * as a wildcard inside an address. default: "127.0.0.1,::1" — example: "127.0.0.*,192.168.1.*" 🫶
  • -b, --blocklist — turn on peer blocklists. Transmission gets the bluetack blocklist file format, bestie. wanna add new blocklists? just copy them into the config-dir's "blocklists" subdirectory. slay.
  • -c, --watch-dir directory — a directory to watch for new .torrent files that should get added. as they land in this directory, the daemon loads them into Transmission. it's like a little torrent mailbox 💌
  • -C — nope, do not watch for new .torrent files.
  • -B, --no-blocklist — turn blocklists off.
  • -d, --dump-settings — dumps transmission-daemon's settings to stderr.
  • -f, --foreground — run in the foreground and print errors to stderr.
  • -g, --config-dir directory — where to look for configuration files. this is the move when you wanna swap between the cli, daemon, gtk, and qt clients. see https://github.com/transmission/transmission/blob/main/docs/Configuration-Files.md for more info. 📂
  • -er, --encryption-required — encrypt all peer connections. no exceptions, bestie.
  • -ep, --encryption-preferred — prefer encrypted peer connections.
  • -et, --encryption-tolerated — prefer unencrypted peer connections.
  • -gsr, --global-seedratio ratio — all torrents should seed until a specific ratio, unless a per-torrent setting overrides it.
  • -GSR, --no-global-seedratio — all torrents should seed regardless of ratio, unless a per-torrent setting overrides it. ratio could never 🫶
  • -h, --help — prints the command-line option descriptions. the classic.
  • --incomplete-dir dir — when adding new torrents, store their contents in directory until the torrent is done.
  • --no-incomplete-dir — don't store incomplete torrents in a different directory.
  • -i, --bind-address-ipv4 — listen for IPv4 BitTorrent connections on a specific address. only one IPv4 listening address is allowed. default: 0.0.0.0 (All addresses) 🌐
  • -I, --bind-address-ipv6 — listen for IPv6 BitTorrent connections on a specific address. only one IPv6 listening address is allowed. default: :: (All addresses)
  • -r, --rpc-bind-address — listen for RPC connections on a specific address. this has to be an IPv4 or IPv6 address. only one RPC listening address is allowed. default: 0.0.0.0 (All IPv4 addresses)
  • --paused — pause all torrents on startup. nap time 😴
  • -L, --peerlimit-global limit — overall peer limit. lowkey a lifesaver on embedded systems where the default might be unsuitable. default: 240
  • -l, --peerlimit-torrent limit — peer limit per torrent. also super useful on embedded systems where the default might be unsuitable. default: 60
  • -m, --portmap — enable portmapping via NAT-PMP or UPnP.
  • -M, --no-portmap — disable portmapping.
  • -o, --dht — enable distributed hash table (DHT).
  • -O, --no-dht — disable distributed hash table (DHT).
  • -p, --port port — port to open and listen for RPC requests on. default: 9091
  • -P, --peerport port — port to listen for incoming peers on. default: 51413
  • -t, --auth — require clients to authenticate themselves. ngl, this doesn't do much good unless username and password are also set. 🔐
  • -T, --no-auth — don't require authentication from clients.
  • -u, --username username — used for client authentication.
  • -v, --password password — used for client authentication.
  • -V, --version — show version number and exit.
  • --utp — enable uTP for peer connections.
  • --no-utp — disable uTP for peer connections.
  • -w, --download-dir — where to store downloaded data.
  • -e, --logfile — where to store transmission's log messages.
  • --log-level level — log level. must be 'critical', 'error', 'warn', 'info', 'debug', or 'trace'.
  • --log-error — deprecated. use --log-level=error
  • --log-info — deprecated. use --log-level=info
  • --log-debug — deprecated. use --log-level=debug
  • -x, --pid-file — name of PID file.

🦋 ENVIRONMENT 🦋

  • http_proxy — libcurl uses this environment variable when performing tracker announces.
  • TRANSMISSION_HOME — sets the default config-dir.

💜 FILES 💜

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Charles Kerr, Josh Elsasser, Eric Petit, Mitchell Livingston, and Mike Gelfand. absolute legends, fr fr.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

transmission-create(1), transmission-daemon(1), transmission-edit(1), transmission-gtk(1), transmission-qt(1), transmission-remote(1), transmission-show(1)

https://transmissionbt.com/

okay that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 💅✨ this one's from July 21, 2008, and it lives under the manual page name TRANSMISSION-DAEMON(1). go forth and seed 🦋💖

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