Cannot set custom Download folder for Transmission and two UDP errors when starting Transmission

[Mannekino]

Does the user under which Transmission is running have proper access right to that folder?

What does it say currently for "download-dir" in your settings.json file? The settings.json file should be somewhere in /usr/local/etc/transmission/ if you haven't changed your config dir.

 

[Erick Krigsvold]

root@transmission:~ # cat /etc/rc.conf
ifconfig_epair0b="DHCP"
hostname="transmission"
cron_flags="$cron_flags -J 15"

# Disable Sendmail by default
sendmail_enable="NO"
sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"

# Run secure syslog
syslogd_flags="-c -ss"

# Enable IPv6
ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES"
transmission_enable="YES"
transmission_download_dir="/mnt/krigsvolds/Media/Downloads"
openvpn_enable="YES"
openvpn_configfile="/usr/local/etc/openvpn/openvpn.conf"
root@transmission:~ #

Provide the output of your your rc.conf using command cat /etc/rc.conf | grep transmission

 

[Erick Krigsvold]

Does the user under which Transmission is running have proper access right to that folder?

What does it say currently for "download-dir" in your settings.json file? The settings.json file should be somewhere in /usr/local/etc/transmission/ if you haven't changed your config dir.

"alt-speed-down": 50,

"alt-speed-enabled": false,

"alt-speed-time-begin": 540,

"alt-speed-time-day": 127,

"alt-speed-time-enabled": false,

"alt-speed-time-end": 1020,

"alt-speed-up": 50,

"bind-address-ipv4": "0.0.0.0",

"bind-address-ipv6": "::",

"blocklist-enabled": false,

"blocklist-url": "http://www.example.com/blocklist",

"cache-size-mb": 4,

"dht-enabled": true,

"download-dir": "/mnt/krigsvolds/Media/Downloads",

"download-queue-enabled": true,

"download-queue-size": 5

"encryption": 1,

"idle-seeding-limit": 30,

"idle-seeding-limit-enabled": false,

"incomplete-dir": "//Downloads",

"incomplete-dir-enabled": false,

"lpd-enabled": false,

"message-level": 2,

"peer-congestion-algorithm": "",

"peer-id-ttl-hours": 6,

"peer-limit-global": 200,

"peer-limit-per-torrent": 50,

"peer-port": 51413,

"peer-port-random-high": 65535,

"peer-port-random-low": 49152,

"peer-port-random-on-start": false,

"peer-socket-tos": "default",

"pex-enabled": true,

"pidfile": "/var/run/transmission/daemon.pid",

"port-forwarding-enabled": true,

"preallocation": 1,

"prefetch-enabled": true,

"queue-stalled-enabled": true,

"queue-stalled-minutes": 30,

"ratio-limit": 0,

"ratio-limit-enabled": true,

"rename-partial-files": true,

"rpc-authentication-required": false,

"rpc-bind-address": "0.0.0.0",

"rpc-enabled": true,

"rpc-host-whitelist": "",

"rpc-host-whitelist-enabled": true,

"rpc-password": "{e8e8e9317a398ba42ed3f253f5079768363a57c7H1ZA4PYu",

"rpc-port": 9091,

"rpc-url": "/transmission/",

 

[Mannekino]

Looks like it inherited the correct setting from your rc.conf file. I got no other ideas except for maybe somekind of permission issue. The downloaded file are not showing up anywhere else?

 

[Erick Krigsvold]

I have all of my permissions set to allow read/write and I don't know where the files are downloading to. The Transmission setting are saying th location is my mount post source bu they are definitely not there. I have openvpn set up in the same jail so maybe something is going on there. I got too used to the warden jails i guess, i started having a ton of problems after updating...

 

[Nvious1]

I think it might be a permissions issue as well. What you could try is to update the shell of the UID transmission is running as to allow a zsh shell then switch over to that user and try to access the mount and check that you can write files to that folder.

 

[Erick Krigsvold]

I thought i had this all worked out but if started being weird again. I figured out where my files are going just not sure how or why( I am very novice)
"/mnt/Media2/iocage/jails/transmission/root/mnt/Media2/N2/Plex/Transmission" is where all of my files are going...what did i do wrong here?

 

[oldfart]

FreeNAS-11.2-U5

Code:

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/transmission: No such file or directory
/usr/local/etc/transmission/settings.json: No such file or directory

service transmission stop (done from Jail GUI)
because
service transmission stop
transmission does not exist in /etc/rc.d or the local startup

sysrc transmission_download_dir="/mnt/fNASPool/DataSet1/downloads/"
service transmission start (done from Jail GUI)

cat /etc/rc.conf | grep transmission
transmission_download_dir="/mnt/fNASPool/DataSet1/downloads/"
transmission_incomplete_dir="/mnt/fNASPool/DataSet1/downloads/"

from transmission GUI
download to:
/usr/local/etc/transmission/home/Downloads

so, none of the above worked for me.

 

[oldfart]

stopped Transmission from jail gui
edited /mnt/fNASPool/iocage/jails/transmission/root/usr/local/etc/transmission/home/settings.json
started Transmission

reverted back to:
"download-dir": "/usr/local/etc/transmission/home/Downloads"

 

[winnielinnie]

* Make sure the transmission user (or the custom user running the transmission daemon) has read/execute/write permissions for your desired custom folder. (Double check the UID/GID permissions for the Mount Points that link your FreeNAS directory/dataset to the jail's download directory.

The transmission service reads some options from the /etc/rc.conf file.

Here is what I did to fix this issue in the meantime, until the plugin maintainers fix the web interface:

First make sure the jail is started:
Jails > transmission > three dots (...) > Start

Then open up a shell inside the jail:
Jails > transmission > three dots (...) > Shell

Stop the transmission service before making any changes:

Code:

service transmission stop

Add an entry to /etc/rc.conf for your custom download folder, such as /media/download (or the path you desire). Note the single quotation marks:

Code:

sysrc 'transmission_download_dir=/media/download'

Verify the changes in /etc/rc.conf:

Code:

cat /etc/rc.conf

Start the transmission service again:

Code:

service transmission start

Log in to the Transmission web interface and check that your custom download folder is correctly set.