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I'm trying to set up a transmission server for use as a seedbox. I've done this before on an Ubuntu box, but this is the first time I've tried it on FreeBSD.

The default home directly for transmission from the FreeBSD package collection is /usr/local/etc/transmission/home. As this is on my small partition, I moved the contents of this directly to /home/transmission (on my large partition) and created a symlink from /usr/local/etc/transmission/home to /home/transmission.

I changed the ownership of both the link and the directory+contents to the transmission user, and then recursively set chmod 644 on the contents of /home/transmission. I chose 644 because I want my SSH user to be able to grab the contents of the /home/transmission/Downloads/ (so I can get the files to my home PC via SFTP).

The trouble is, transmission keeps resetting the directory permissions! See below:

[peter@haida ~]$ sudo ls -al /home/transmission

total 72

drwxr-x---  6 transmission  transmission   512 May 17 16:12 .

drwxr-xr-x  7 root          wheel         1024 May 17 03:11 ..

drwxr--r--  4 transmission  transmission   512 May 17 03:22 Downloads

drwxr--r--  2 transmission  transmission   512 May 16 03:34 blocklists

-rw-------  1 transmission  transmission  2885 May 17 16:08 dht.dat

drwxr--r--  2 transmission  transmission   512 May 17 06:16 resume

-rw-------  1 transmission  transmission  2226 May 17 16:08 settings.json

-rw-------  1 transmission  transmission   149 May 17 06:20 stats.json

drwxr--r--  2 transmission  transmission   512 May 17 03:21 torrents

Note that the /home/transmission folder (.) has permissions 750. The Downloads subfolder has permissions 744, which is what I want, however, as the parent directory is 750 I can't actually look in there as a non-privileged user.

I tried changing the default umask in settings.json to no effect (my settings file: http://pastebin.com/v83ikGrn). Any ideas?

freebsd transmission

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I'm trying to set up a transmission server for use as a seedbox. I've done this before on an Ubuntu box, but this is the first time I've tried it on FreeBSD.

The default home directly for transmission from the FreeBSD package collection is /usr/local/etc/transmission/home. As this is on my small partition, I moved the contents of this directly to /home/transmission (on my large partition) and created a symlink from /usr/local/etc/transmission/home to /home/transmission.

I changed the ownership of both the link and the directory+contents to the transmission user, and then recursively set chmod 644 on the contents of /home/transmission. I chose 644 because I want my SSH user to be able to grab the contents of the /home/transmission/Downloads/ (so I can get the files to my home PC via SFTP).

The trouble is, transmission keeps resetting the directory permissions! See below:

[peter@haida ~]$ sudo ls -al /home/transmission

total 72

drwxr-x---  6 transmission  transmission   512 May 17 16:12 .

drwxr-xr-x  7 root          wheel         1024 May 17 03:11 ..

drwxr--r--  4 transmission  transmission   512 May 17 03:22 Downloads

drwxr--r--  2 transmission  transmission   512 May 16 03:34 blocklists

-rw-------  1 transmission  transmission  2885 May 17 16:08 dht.dat

drwxr--r--  2 transmission  transmission   512 May 17 06:16 resume

-rw-------  1 transmission  transmission  2226 May 17 16:08 settings.json

-rw-------  1 transmission  transmission   149 May 17 06:20 stats.json

drwxr--r--  2 transmission  transmission   512 May 17 03:21 torrents

Note that the /home/transmission folder (.) has permissions 750. The Downloads subfolder has permissions 744, which is what I want, however, as the parent directory is 750 I can't actually look in there as a non-privileged user.

I tried changing the default umask in settings.json to no effect (my settings file: http://pastebin.com/v83ikGrn). Any ideas?

freebsd transmission

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asked May 17 '16 at 20:23

PeterPeter

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I'm trying to set up a transmission server for use as a seedbox. I've done this before on an Ubuntu box, but this is the first time I've tried it on FreeBSD.

The default home directly for transmission from the FreeBSD package collection is /usr/local/etc/transmission/home. As this is on my small partition, I moved the contents of this directly to /home/transmission (on my large partition) and created a symlink from /usr/local/etc/transmission/home to /home/transmission.

I changed the ownership of both the link and the directory+contents to the transmission user, and then recursively set chmod 644 on the contents of /home/transmission. I chose 644 because I want my SSH user to be able to grab the contents of the /home/transmission/Downloads/ (so I can get the files to my home PC via SFTP).

The trouble is, transmission keeps resetting the directory permissions! See below:

[peter@haida ~]$ sudo ls -al /home/transmission

total 72

drwxr-x---  6 transmission  transmission   512 May 17 16:12 .

drwxr-xr-x  7 root          wheel         1024 May 17 03:11 ..

drwxr--r--  4 transmission  transmission   512 May 17 03:22 Downloads

drwxr--r--  2 transmission  transmission   512 May 16 03:34 blocklists

-rw-------  1 transmission  transmission  2885 May 17 16:08 dht.dat

drwxr--r--  2 transmission  transmission   512 May 17 06:16 resume

-rw-------  1 transmission  transmission  2226 May 17 16:08 settings.json

-rw-------  1 transmission  transmission   149 May 17 06:20 stats.json

drwxr--r--  2 transmission  transmission   512 May 17 03:21 torrents

Note that the /home/transmission folder (.) has permissions 750. The Downloads subfolder has permissions 744, which is what I want, however, as the parent directory is 750 I can't actually look in there as a non-privileged user.

I tried changing the default umask in settings.json to no effect (my settings file: http://pastebin.com/v83ikGrn). Any ideas?

freebsd transmission

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[peter@haida ~]$ sudo ls -al /home/transmission

total 72

drwxr-x---  6 transmission  transmission   512 May 17 16:12 .

drwxr-xr-x  7 root          wheel         1024 May 17 03:11 ..

drwxr--r--  4 transmission  transmission   512 May 17 03:22 Downloads

drwxr--r--  2 transmission  transmission   512 May 16 03:34 blocklists

-rw-------  1 transmission  transmission  2885 May 17 16:08 dht.dat

drwxr--r--  2 transmission  transmission   512 May 17 06:16 resume

-rw-------  1 transmission  transmission  2226 May 17 16:08 settings.json

-rw-------  1 transmission  transmission   149 May 17 06:20 stats.json

drwxr--r--  2 transmission  transmission   512 May 17 03:21 torrents

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You have to stop Transmission first (service transmission stop), change the settings.json umask, and start the daemon again.

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You have to stop Transmission first (service transmission stop), change the settings.json umask, and start the daemon again.

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You have to stop Transmission first (service transmission stop), change the settings.json umask, and start the daemon again.

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You have to stop Transmission first (service transmission stop), change the settings.json umask, and start the daemon again.

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