Changes between Version 3 and Version 4 of HeadlessUsageGentoo

Timestamp:

Dec 26, 2008, 6:20:21 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

rb07

Comment:

Changes to configuration and script to addapt them to Tr 1.42

HeadlessUsageGentoo

@@ -69 +69 @@
 # (machines/networks allowed/denied to control transmission -- comma separated)
 # TR_ACL="+127.0.0.1"
+# or (for versions 1.4x -- different syntax)
+# TR_ACL="127.0.0.1"
 
 # Enable use of block lists
@@ -120 +122 @@
 NAME=transmission-daemon
 declare -a OPTIONS
-OPTIONS+=" -a ${TR_ACL:=+127.0.0.1}"
+OPTIONS+=" -a ${TR_ACL:=127.0.0.1}"
 if [ -z "$TR_BLOCK" -o "$TR_BLOCK" = "no" ]; then
    OPTIONS+=" -B"
@@ -178 +180 @@
       --exec /usr/bin/transmission-daemon -- ${OPTIONS[@]} \
    || { eerror $E_MSG; eend 1; return 1; }
-   sleep 1
+   sleep 2
    transmission-remote ${CTL_PORT:-9091} \
       ${REMOTE_PASS:+-n $REMOTE_USER:$REMOTE_PASS} \
@@ -233 +235 @@
 
 The procedure is not difficult but involves more work: create a local emerge repository structure, copy the contents from the current transmission branch, inside your local copy duplicate the file transmission-1.33.ebuild into transmission-1.34.ebuild, change the configuration in /etc/make.conf adding 'PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"', rebuild the package (2 ebuild commands), and emerge will show it as an option.
+----
+Notes:
+
+1. With version 1.42, the change from ACL to whitelist prompted the change above of dropping the "+"; leaving it causes a failure on the script when transmission-remote tries to change some parameters and is not authorized to do so (the whitelist is probably empty, not even 127.0.0.1).
+
+2. As reported on the forum, the sleep on the script was increased to 2 seconds to avoid a communication failure between transmission-remote and the daemon.  I observed this problem, with twice the torrents reported before in the forum, so the daemon startup might be slower the more torrents it has and the problem may persist.