Exit Transmission-daemon nicely.

[snake98]

Add an option in Transmission-remote or transmisioncli to shut down the daemon nicely(And save current settings). I currently use kill transmission but sometimes the torrents are not stopped nicely and it has to recheck them. (Which is slow on a router).
If there currently is a way just invalidate the ticket with instructions on how to do it. I was unable to find it in the wiki.

[howl]

This could be invalid, the way to cleany stop a system daemon should be provided by the system where the daemon is running.

Ej:
sudo service transmission-daemon stop
/etc/init.d/transmission-daemon stop
...

[snake98]

As this is running on a headless machine(router) there is no(in my case) /opt/etc/init.d/transmission-daemon

I have to start it manually.

[howl]

I see, usually routers doesn't have a shutdown sequence, so it's no possible to exit cleanly as you said. Let's see what the devs say, but thinking in this type of devices is an interesting suggestion to provide shutdown from transmission-remote.

[Rolcol]

Hm... I think killing it closes the daemon cleanly. What signal are you killing it with?

[snake98]

I just kill + the 4 pids of transmission, should I only use the first one?

[Longinus00]

Replying to snake98:

I just kill + the 4 pids of transmission, should I only use the first one?

What do you mean 'the 4 pids of transmission'.

[snake98]

I have one transmission running here is my ps command

root@Asus RT-N16:/opt# ps | grep transmission
14436 root     16016 S    /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -g /opt/transmission/config
14437 root     16016 S    /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -g /opt/transmission/config
14438 root     16016 S    /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -g /opt/transmission/config
14440 root     16016 S    /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -g /opt/transmission/config
14443 root     16016 D    /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -g /opt/transmission/config
14563 root      1528 R    grep transmission
root@Asus RT-N16:/opt#

[Longinus00]

Replying to snake98:

I have one transmission running here is my ps command

root@Asus RT-N16:/opt# ps | grep transmission
14436 root     16016 S    /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -g /opt/transmission/config
14437 root     16016 S    /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -g /opt/transmission/config
14438 root     16016 S    /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -g /opt/transmission/config
14440 root     16016 S    /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -g /opt/transmission/config
14443 root     16016 D    /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -g /opt/transmission/config
14563 root      1528 R    grep transmission
root@Asus RT-N16:/opt#

You have 5 instances of transmission running.

[snake98]

It may look that way but I don't 114437 to 14563 are child processes of 14436. I don't know if this matters, but I'm runing on mips processor. for example

root@Asus RT-N16:/opt# ps | grep transmission
14563 root      1528 R    grep transmission
root@Asus RT-N16:/opt#

nothing is found so I run

root@Asus RT-N16:/opt#/opt/bin/transmission-daemon -g /opt/transmission/config
root@Asus RT-N16:/opt# ps | grep transmission
14436 root     16016 S    /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -g /opt/transmission/config
14437 root     16016 S    /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -g /opt/transmission/config
14438 root     16016 S    /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -g /opt/transmission/config
14440 root     16016 S    /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -g /opt/transmission/config
14443 root     16016 D    /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -g /opt/transmission/config
14563 root      1528 R    grep transmission
root@Asus RT-N16:/opt#

so you see I only run it once, I think there is a child process for each torrent I have loaded.

[charles]

Actually after re-reading this ticket I agree more with Howl and Rolcol.

There's probably only one actual instance of Transmission running, and ps is getting tripped up by showing you all the different threads.