How to install Transmission BitTorrent client on FreeBSD
Transmission is a fast, easy and free BitTorrent client.
This manual is for Transmission 2.00 and higher. Our plan is running it as a daemon with a web interface.
Installation
Install required ports:
cd /usr/ports/net-p2p/transmission-daemon ; make install clean
Login to unpriv account and start transmission-daemon.
su - mariusvw transmission-daemon
Now transmission created the default configuration kill it.
# Get current pid: ps aux |grep transmission # Kill it: kill <PID>
Edit the configuration to your needs:
vi .config/transmission-daemon/settings.json
You can view an example config here:
{
"alt-speed-down": 1500,
"alt-speed-enabled": false,
"alt-speed-time-begin": 540,
"alt-speed-time-day": 62,
"alt-speed-time-enabled": true,
"alt-speed-time-end": 1020,
"alt-speed-up": 100,
"bind-address-ipv4": "",
"bind-address-ipv6": "",
"blocklist-enabled": true,
"blocklist-url": "http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/level1.gz",
"cache-size-mb": 4,
"dht-enabled": true,
"download-dir": "/usr/home/mariusvw/Downloads",
"encryption": 1,
"idle-seeding-limit": 30,
"idle-seeding-limit-enabled": false,
"incomplete-dir": "/usr/home/mariusvw/Downloads",
"incomplete-dir-enabled": false,
"lazy-bitfield-enabled": true,
"lpd-enabled": false,
"message-level": 2,
"open-file-limit": 32,
"peer-congestion-algorithm": "",
"peer-limit-global": 240,
"peer-limit-per-torrent": 60,
"peer-port": 53945,
"peer-port-random-high": 65535,
"peer-port-random-low": 49152,
"peer-port-random-on-start": false,
"peer-socket-tos": "default",
"pex-enabled": true,
"port-forwarding-enabled": true,
"preallocation": 1,
"prefetch-enabled": 1,
"ratio-limit": 2,
"ratio-limit-enabled": true,
"rename-partial-files": true,
"rpc-authentication-required": true,
"rpc-bind-address": "192.168.1.2",
"rpc-enabled": true,
"rpc-password": "{2f9f20kco80wef8f02do20020488fc49626615IeDMuk3",
"rpc-port": 9091,
"rpc-url": "/transmission/",
"rpc-username": "mariusvw",
"rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1,192.168.1.40,2001:0000:0000::fe35:",
"rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,
"script-torrent-done-enabled": false,
"script-torrent-done-filename": "",
"speed-limit-down": 100,
"speed-limit-down-enabled": false,
"speed-limit-up": 100,
"speed-limit-up-enabled": false,
"start-added-torrents": true,
"trash-original-torrent-files": true,
"umask": 18,
"upload-slots-per-torrent": 14,
"utp-enabled": true,
"watch-dir": "/usr/home/mariusvw/Downloads/__WATCH",
"watch-dir-enabled": true
}Create download directories
mkdir /usr/home/mariusvw/Downloads mkdir /usr/home/mariusvw/Downloads/__WATCH
Restart the daemon:
transmission-daemon
Surfto:
http://192.168.1.2:9091/transmission/web/
Have fun downloading! 
Optional and OLD scripts:
Dynamic Speed Script
Change maximum speeds on time period:
0 23 * * * /home/mariusvw/transmission-speed.sh fast > /dev/null 2>&1 0 8 * * * /home/mariusvw/transmission-speed.sh slow > /dev/null 2>&1
Create speed-change script: transmission-speed.sh
#!/bin/sh action=$1 case $action in 'slow') /usr/local/bin/transmission-remote -n mariusvw:<yourpassword> -d 100 -u 10 ;; 'fast') /usr/local/bin/transmission-remote -n mariusvw:<yourpassword> -d 500 -u 50 ;; esac
Easy commands
You can use this to easily enter transmission-daemon commands without having to enter your username and password every time.
#!/bin/sh action=$1 if [ -n "$action" ] then /usr/local/bin/transmission-remote -n mariusvw:<yourpassword> $action fi
I hope this is useful for the ones who like to work with Torrents and share easy without leaving on your desktop PC if you have a server available.
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