Note: On some newer Linux distributions you will also need to change the SELinux file type (see below)Morning Everyone, I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on which distro to use to setup a linux media server.
To do this you will need a telnet client like PuTTY on your system.
I have used their client for many years and have found it a very powerful and useful product, however my needs and the developers goals have begun to split ways and I felt a comparison was useful in the context of the conversation.Linux media server distroThe simplest way to do this on a Unix/Linux system is to make it world-writable by typing: chmod -R a+w mw-config in the directory you intend to install MediaWiki in. But, things look like I am going to make the permanent move to transmission.ĭisclaimer: I have nothing against ktorrent, nor am I advertising for them. I am going to keep X around for probably another week or so while I continue to evaluate transmission in case I am forced to go back to ktorrent. I have not had a chance to see if the transmission-daemon works without X running. Otherwise the script will start filling up your users inbox. Only pointer I have is to set "verbose=" equal to nothing, not 0 (zero) like I tried first. Being that it scans in a "for" loop, it works great no matter how many. Yes I know about the "transmission-remote-cli.py" script, but I have not been able to get it to work yet.Īs for the scan folder, I used the script and set it up with cron to run on a particular folder every minute. I really wish there was a more menu/curses based CLI, but I am happy with what is available. I think that transmissioncli is supposed to eventually be removed, but I don't know. The command interface (both of them) seem to be nice, though I have only really used transmission-remote.
That and I am not a huge fan of the Mac OS styled skinning of it, but I don't care about looks, I want functionality. If I had one thing to change about it, it would be the inability to select files within a torrent. The webui rocks, its functionality almost rivals the GUI, very powerful, very easy to use.
Not so w/ 1.51, I am pleasantly surprised with everything about transmission.Īlso, now that I have had some face time with transmission I can post up about what I did to to accomplish what I wanted/needed in a torrent client. Back then it seemed a little rough and unrefined. Like I said before, I had tried it back in the 1.3 times where you still had to install clutch separately. Which brings me back to trying out transmission.
Anyway, I was rather disappointed with the direction the new 3.x.x series of ktorrent is headed, all big pretty GUI, still have a lot of bugs to work out w/ the functionality that I need. Well, a tracker I am on began requiring ktorrent 3.x.x which requires kde4, I downloaded the kde4 testing packages from slackware-current and installed them(yes it sure seemed like an awful lot of stuff just to run a torrent server). Slackware 12.2 runs kde3, I used to run ktorrent 2.x.x series for the longest time(a lil bloated for my application yes, but it did all I wanted).
CLI, WebUI, folder watch/scan.įirst off, just to get the specs out there. I think that w/ Transmission I have found all that I need in a bt client. Is this functionality disabled for the daemon? If all else fails I can always use the cron script found here but the less configuring I have to do for the functionality I want the better.ĭoes transmission-daemon require X to be running? torrent files located in the "watch-dir" directory. In my testing so far of transmission-daemon it does not seem to auto load the. I then copied the settings.json file to my transmission-daemon configuration directory. In particular the variables "watch-dir" and "watch-dir-enabled". I used the transmission gui to assist me in configuring the settings.json file.
Big thanks to all the developers of all their hard work. 1.51 is very much improved over the last time I tried out Transmission (~1.3 ish). I am trying Transmission out on a headless server running linux and so far I like the feel of it.