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<refentry id="transmission-daemon-1">

<refmeta><refentrytitle>&cmd;</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum>

<refmiscinfo class="date">17 Jul 2008</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="sectdesc">&man1;</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="software">&release;</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="arch">generic</refmiscinfo>

<refmiscinfo class="copyright">&suncopy;</refmiscinfo>

</refmeta>

<indexterm><primary>&cmd;</primary></indexterm><indexterm><primary>a daemon-based BitTorrent client</primary></indexterm>

<refnamediv id="transmission-daemon-1-name"><refname>&cmd;</refname><refpurpose>a daemon-based BitTorrent client</refpurpose></refnamediv>

<refsynopsisdiv id="tranmission-1-synp"><title>&synp-tt;</title>

<cmdsynopsis><command>&cmd;</command>

<arg choice="opt"><option>-help</option></arg>

</cmdsynopsis>

<cmdsynopsis><command>&cmd;</command>

<arg choice="opt"><option>-acl <replaceable>list</replaceable></option></arg>

<arg choice="opt"><option>-blocklist</option>|<option>-no-blocklist</option></arg>

<arg choice="opt"><option>-foreground</option></arg>

<arg choice="opt"><option>-conf-dir <replaceable>directory</replaceable></option></arg>

<arg choice="opt"><option>-help</option></arg>

<arg choice="opt"><option>-port <replaceable>port</replaceable></option></arg>

<arg choice="opt"><option>-auth</option>|<option>-no-auth</option></arg>

<arg choice="opt"><option>-username <replaceable>username</replaceable></option></arg>

<arg choice="opt"><option>-password <replaceable>password</replaceable></option></arg>

<arg choice="opt"><option>-download-dir <replaceable>directory</replaceable></option></arg>

</cmdsynopsis>

</refsynopsisdiv>

<refsect1 id="transmission-daemon-1-desc"><title>&desc-tt;</title>

<para><command>&cmd;</command> is a daemon-based transmission session

that can be controlled via RPC commands from transmission's web interface or <citerefentry><refentrytitle>transmission-remote</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.

</para></refsect1>

<refsect1 id="transmission-daemon-1-opts"><title>&opts-tt;</title>

<para>The following options are supported:</para>

<variablelist termlength="wholeline">

<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>

<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>

<varlistentry><term><option role="nodash">-B</option>, <option>-no-blocklist</option></term><listitem><para>Disable peer blocklists. </para></listitem></varlistentry>

<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>

<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>

<varlistentry><term><option role="nodash">-h</option>, <option>-help</option></term><listitem><para>Print command-line option descriptions.</para></listitem></varlistentry>

<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>

<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>

<varlistentry><term><option role="nodash">-T</option>, <option>-no-auth</option></term><listitem><para>Don't require authentication from clients.</para></listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><option role="nodash">-u</option>, <option>-username <replaceable>username</replaceable></option></term><listitem><para>Used for client authentication.</para></listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><option role="nodash">-v</option>, <option>-password <replaceable>password</replaceable></option></term><listitem><para>Used for client authentication.</para></listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><option role="nodash">-w</option>, <option>-download-dir</option></term><listitem><para>Where to store downloaded data.</para></listitem></varlistentry>

</variablelist></refsect1>

<refsect1 id="transmission-daemon-1-envr"><title>&envr-tt;</title>

<para><command>&cmd;</command> uses the following environment variables:</para>

<variablelist><varlistentry><term>TRANSMISSION_HOME</term><listitem><para>Sets the default conf-dir.</para>

</listitem></varlistentry></variablelist></refsect1

<refsect1 id="transmission-daemon-1-file"><title>&file-tt;</title>

<para>The following files are used by this application:</para>

<variablelist termlength="wholeline">

<varlistentry><term><filename>/usr/bin/&cmd;</filename>

</term><listitem><para>

The executable for <application>&cmd;</application>

</para></listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><filename>$HOME/.config/transmission-daemon</filename>

</term><listitem><para>

The config-dir used when neither TRANSMISSION_HOME nor -g is specified.

</para></listitem></varlistentry>

</variablelist>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="transmission-damon-1-exit"><title>&exit-tt;</title>

<para>The following exit values are returned:</para>

<variablelist termlength="xtranarrow">

<varlistentry><term><returnvalue>0</returnvalue></term><listitem><para>Application

exited successfully.</para>

</listitem></varlistentry>

<varlistentry><term><returnvalue>>0</returnvalue></term><listitem><para>Application

exited with failure.</para>

</listitem></varlistentry>

</variablelist></refsect1>

<refsect1 id="transmission-daemon-1-attr"><title>&attr-tt;</title>

<para>See <olink targetdocent="REFMAN5" localinfo="attributes-5"><citerefentry>

<refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry></olink>

for descriptions of the following attributes:</para>

<informaltable frame="all">

<tgroup cols="2" colsep="1" rowsep="1"><colspec colname="COLSPEC0" colwidth="1*">

<colspec colname="COLSPEC1" colwidth="1*">

<thead>

<row><entry align="center" valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE TYPE</entry><entry align="center"

valign="middle">ATTRIBUTE VALUE</entry></row>

</thead>

<tbody>

<row><entry><para>Availability</para></entry><entry><para>SUNWtransmission</para></entry>

</row>

<row><entry colname="COLSPEC0"><para>Interface stability</para></entry><entry

colname="COLSPEC1"><para>Volatile</para></entry></row>

</tbody>

</tgroup>

</informaltable>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="transmission-daemon-1-also"><title>&also-tt;</title>

<para>

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>transmission</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>transmissioncli</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>transmission-remote</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>attributes</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>

<para>Transmission community site - <literal>http://www.transmissionbt.org/</literal></para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id="tranmission-1-note"><title>&note-tt;</title>

<parm><command>&cmd;</command> program was written by Charles Kerr

��charles@rebelbase.com��, Josh Elsasser ��josh@elsasser.org��, Eric Petit

��titer@m0k.org��, and Mitchell Livingston ��livings124@gmail.com��.<para>

<para>The man page updated by Elaine Xiong, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.</para>

</refsect1>

</refentry>