18861N/A<!DOCTYPE REFENTRY PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems//DTD DocBook V3.0-Based SolBook Subset V2.0//EN" [
18861N/A<indexterm><primary>&cmd;</primary></indexterm><indexterm><primary>a daemon-based BitTorrent client</primary></indexterm>
18861N/A<refnamediv id="transmission-daemon-1-name"><refname>&cmd;</refname><refpurpose>a daemon-based BitTorrent client</refpurpose></refnamediv>
18861N/Athat can be controlled via RPC commands from transmission's web interface or <citerefentry><refentrytitle>transmission-remote</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
18861N/A<varlistentry><term><option role="nodash">-a</option>, <option>-acl <replaceable>list</replaceable></option></term><listitem><para>Specify access control list (ACL) to control which hosts may submit RPC requests. The ACL <replaceable>list</replaceable> is constructed as (+|-)x.x.x.x[/x],... which is a comma separated list of IP subnets, each subnet is prepended by '-' or '+' sign. Plus means allow, minus means deny. If subnet mask is omitted, like "-1.2.3.4", then it means that single IP address. Masks may vary from 0 to 32 inclusive. The default <replaceable>list</replaceable> is +127.0.0.1.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
18861N/A<varlistentry><term><option role="nodash">-b</option>, <option>-blocklist</option></term><listitem><para>Enable peer blocklists. Transmission understands the bluetack blocklist file format. Bluetack blocklists are text files that applications can load in order to block access. Bluetack blocklists are available on <literal>http://www.bluetack.co.uk/<literal>. New blocklists can be added by copying them into the config-dir's "blocklists" subdirectory.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
18861N/A<varlistentry><term><option role="nodash">-B</option>, <option>-no-blocklist</option></term><listitem><para>Disable peer blocklists. </para></listitem></varlistentry>
18861N/A<varlistentry><term><option role="nodash">-f</option>, <option>-foreground</option></term><listitem><para>Run in the foreground and print errors to stderr.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
18861N/A<varlistentry><term><option role="nodash">-g</option>, <option>-conf-dir <replaceable>directory</replaceable></option></term><listitem><para>Where to look for .torrent and conf files on startup.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
18861N/A<varlistentry><term><option role="nodash">-h</option>, <option>-help</option></term><listitem><para>Print command-line option descriptions.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
18861N/A<varlistentry><term><option role="nodash">-p</option>, <option>-port <replaceable>port</replaceable></option></term><listitem><para><replaceable>port</replaceable> to open and listen for RPC requests on. The default <replaceable>port</replaceable> is 9091.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
18861N/A<varlistentry><term><option role="nodash">-t</option>, <option>-auth</option></term><listitem><para>Require clients to authenticate themselves. This doesn't do much good unless username and password are also set.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
18861N/A<varlistentry><term><option role="nodash">-T</option>, <option>-no-auth</option></term><listitem><para>Don't require authentication from clients.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
18861N/A<varlistentry><term><option role="nodash">-u</option>, <option>-username <replaceable>username</replaceable></option></term><listitem><para>Used for client authentication.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
18861N/A<varlistentry><term><option role="nodash">-v</option>, <option>-password <replaceable>password</replaceable></option></term><listitem><para>Used for client authentication.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
18861N/A<varlistentry><term><option role="nodash">-w</option>, <option>-download-dir</option></term><listitem><para>Where to store downloaded data.</para></listitem></varlistentry>
18861N/A<variablelist><varlistentry><term>TRANSMISSION_HOME</term><listitem><para>Sets the default conf-dir.</para>
18861N/A<citerefentry><refentrytitle>transmission</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
18861N/A<citerefentry><refentrytitle>transmissioncli</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
18861N/A<citerefentry><refentrytitle>transmission-remote</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
18861N/A<citerefentry><refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
18861N/A<para>Transmission community site - <literal>http://www.transmissionbt.org/</literal></para>