Transmission Not Working

[jerjel]

I can't seem to get Transmission to run under a user. It runs fine as root, but when I set up a user, edit the file, it starts just fine but it won't stop. Since it fails to stop the files don't get created.
Even when it runs fine as the root user, I am unable to access it's Web Client.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. (I am a newbie with Linux)

[WarheadsSE]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Transmission

[jerjel]

I did follow those directions from http://archlinuxarm.org/support/guides/ ... ansmission
Changed the file, /etc/conf.d/transmissiond, to add a user and changed the folder path accordingly.
Executed /etc/rc.d/transmissiond start to Start the transmission daemon. When I issue the command, /etc/rc.d/transmissiond stop, it FAIL's and it's not creating the settings.json file nor its folders.

[jerjel]

I am having a Pogoplug Model: POGO-B01 (ARMv6)

[WarheadsSE]

Does the su command work for you?

[jerjel]

Yes; that command do work for me.

BUT when I directly log in as a torrent user, I get this error:

login as: torrent
torrent@192.168.3.102's password:
Last login: Tue Aug 14 19:27:38 2012 from 192.168.3.103
-bash: /dev/null: Permission denied

[Socaltom]

When i start transmission, it logs itself in under the user torrent. Do you really need to start it as a separate user?
Tom

[Speed383]

I was having the same problem and used http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=3076&p=18102&hilit=%2Fdev%2Fnull+%3APermission#p18102 to fix it. Reboot the plug after editing the file and transmission will run fine under the torrent user.

I just had the problem happen again. I update everyday so I assume an update removed the fix from the udev rules.

I read a post that said a new install wouldn't have this issue, but my install is about a week old and I encountered this problem so I don't believe it was fixed.

Hope it helps.

[skealoha86]

This issue is also described and fixed here: viewtopic.php?f=29&t=3290

Here's the line that fixes the problem:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'rm /dev/null && mknod -m 0666 /dev/null c 1 3')

[jerjel]

This is what I did:
Added the below line to /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules in the # mem section and rebooted the machine.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
SUBSYSTEM=="mem", KERNEL=="null|zero|full|random|urandom", MODE="0666"
')
Looks like this fixed the issue. I was able to start and stop transmission without any issues and it also created the config files needed for transmission.

Thank you 'speed' and others who helped me resolve this issue