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== Starting and stopping on schedule ==
 
== Starting and stopping on schedule ==
 
To run ''transmission'' from the [[w:crontab|crontab]] (''/etc/crontab''), it must be associated with a display as in the following example. The first line starts ''transmission'' at 2 am, and the second stops it at 8 am. Edit the crontab with '''sudo nano /etc/crontab''', and add the following lines (replace ''username'' with your Linux username).
 
To run ''transmission'' from the [[w:crontab|crontab]] (''/etc/crontab''), it must be associated with a display as in the following example. The first line starts ''transmission'' at 2 am, and the second stops it at 8 am. Edit the crontab with '''sudo nano /etc/crontab''', and add the following lines (replace ''username'' with your Linux username).
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0 2 * * * username transmission --display=:0
 
0 2 * * * username transmission --display=:0
 
0 8 * * * username killall -9 transmission
 
0 8 * * * username killall -9 transmission
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Now press CTRL + O and then hit return to save your changes to the file.
 
Now press CTRL + O and then hit return to save your changes to the file.
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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 21:29, 15 July 2010

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 2 am, and the second stops it at 8 am. 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.

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