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*[http://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/man/transmission-daemon transmission-daemon man page]
 
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*[http://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/man/transmission-remote transmission-remote man page]
 
*[http://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/man/transmission-remote transmission-remote man page]
 
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== See also ==
 
== See also ==
 
*[http://www.transmissionbt.com Official website]
 
*[http://www.transmissionbt.com Official website]
 
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Revision as of 03:51, 10 May 2009

Transmission is the default P2P torrent downloading application that comes with Ubuntu.

Starting and stopping on schedule

To run transmission from the crontab (/etc/crontab), it must be associated with a display as in the following example. The first line starts transmission at midnight, and the second stops it at 8am. Edit the crontab with sudo nano /etc/crontab, and add the following lines (replace username with your Linux username).

0 2 * * * username transmission --display=:0
0 8 * * * username killall -9 transmission

Now press CTRL + O and then hit return to save your changes to the file.

Quit option removed

The reason the --quit option has been removed is because the preferred method of running transmission in the background is as a daemon. See their wiki for more information.

Running on a server

transmission-daemon is a daemon-based Transmission session that can be controlled via RPC commands from transmission's web interface or transmission-remote. transmission-remote is a remote control utility for Transmission and transmission-daemon. By default, transmission-remote connects to the Transmission session at localhost:9091. Other sessions can be controlled by specifying a different host and/or port.

See also