How do I install and configure Transmission

[mail4asim]

Is there a how-to showing how two install and configure Transmission (bittorrent) on Sheeva Plug (Ubuntu) ?

I was able to install transmission demon but I am unable to make any changes to the settings file. It keeps overwriting it as soon as I restart the demon.

[Rabeeh Khoury]

did you try searching the forums? I recall lots of people having success on that (Gentoo maybe and probably UBuntu too).

[star_trekguy]

I had that same problem. I found that you have to shut down the transmission deamon before you edit the config. When you start it back up, your settings should be kept.

[mail4asim]

Thank you !!!!  That did it. I could have swore that I had shutdown the daemon last night and changed the setting file but it kept getting overwritten when I restarted it.  Oh well.. glad that it's working now. 

[mail4asim]

Now I have another issue. My external USB drive needs some permissions corrected. Transmission can't seem to download files to it. ughhh!!!
How can I run transmission daemon as root ?

[mail4asim]

Found it. Had to changed /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon to run as root.
Changed the line in there as
USER=root

I am sure I could also change the permissions on the USB share to allow the Transmission user to have write prev. Which do you think is the better way ?

Sorry about the rambling, I thought it would be good to document this so others may benefit.

[star_trekguy]

I had that same problem also. I also changed Transmission to run as root.

I did try to change the permissions and owner of the folder i was writing to, and it didn't work. I'm not quite sure why.

It runs fine now as root, so I'll just keep it that way.

[gman86]

I had that same problem also. I also changed Transmission to run as root.

I did try to change the permissions and owner of the folder i was writing to, and it didn't work. I'm not quite sure why.

It runs fine now as root, so I'll just keep it that way.

Funny enough i had the similar problem with my external ntfs drive.
External file systems when mounted can only be written by too by their owner (root usually)
Any way i was able to mount as root and write to the file system using mount device mount-point but i was unable to write as the user transmission
It turned out i needed to mount my external hd with fstab i needed to specify the mount type as ntfs-3g
eg

Code:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/harddrive

I recommend that you use fstab to mount external hard drives that you connect to the plug frequently