Mylar setup

[escrima]

Anyone successfully using the Mylar plugin? I could use some help with the configuration.

 

[escrima]

Looks like theres a permission issue. The jail cant create directories in the dataset I created...

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

Looks like theres a permission issue. The jail cant create directories in the dataset I created...

you either need to allow the user Mylar runs as (media, UID=816) to write to that dataset (Solution #1,3,4), or you need to change the user Mylar runs as (Solution #2).
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...plugins-write-permissions-to-your-data.27273/

 

[escrima]

Thanks, that fixed it. Now I'm having issues with Mylar handing off the torrent to Transmission.

Getting the following:

2017-02-12 22:05:54 ERROR Unable to send torrent - check logs and settings (this would be marked as a BAD torrent if Failed Handling was enabled)

2017-02-12 22:05:54 ERROR Query failed with result "invalid or corrupt torrent file".

 

[escrima]

Joshua, so it looks like Mylar(816) is attempting to hand a torrent file to Transmission(921). What's the best solution when one jail is trying to send another jail data?

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

Joshua, so it looks like Mylar(816) is attempting to hand a torrent file to Transmission(921). What's the best solution when one jail is trying to send another jail data?

does mylar use the transmission api to send it the torrent file? (you would be entering the transmission's IP, port, and username/pass if you have one). in that case, for passing the torrent file, permissions do not matter.

 

[escrima]

Yes it does. So my diagnosis is incorrect.

Appreciate the reply, btw.

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

Yes it does. So my diagnosis is incorrect.

Appreciate the reply, btw.

I would double check the IP is for the transmission jail. usually where you enter the details there is a test button
then check mylar's log if its not working.

 

[escrima]

OK. So, Mylar successfully downloads the .torrent to /var/db/mylar/cache/. Then the log says:

Code:

2017-02-20 14:21:46 ERROR incomplete format
2017-02-20 14:21:46 ERROR Unable to send torrent - check logs and settings (this would be marked as a BAD torrent if Failed Handling was enabled)

My transmission IP is correct. In the Mylar settings for Transmission, I have:

Code:

Transmission Host:    (IPaddress:9091)
Transmission Username:  (blank as I do not have Auth required)
Transmission Password:  (blank as I do not have Auth required)
Transmission Directory:  /media/comics   (matching my jail storage mapping)

There is no test button.

Oddly, Mylar works with a Deluge jail. Unfortunately, Deluge breaks in a jail because of a libtorrent-rasterbar conflict.

 

[escrima]

SOLVED

Transmission host must be entered as http://IPaddress:port/transmission/rpc

Trial and error...

 

[escrima]

And now it's broke again. Same errors on Mylar. I enabled logging on transmission and found this error when Mylar kicks a torrent over to Transmission:

Code:

Couldn't read "/var/db/mylar/cache/comicname.torrent": Permission denied (utils.c:258)

That folder is owned by media:media. I added the transmission user to the media group and it still gives me that error.

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

And now it's broke again. Same errors on Mylar. I enabled logging on transmission and found this error when Mylar kicks a torrent over to Transmission:

Code:

Couldn't read "/var/db/mylar/cache/comicname.torrent": Permission denied (utils.c:258)

That folder is owned by media:media. I added the transmission user to the media group and it still gives me that error.

can you show 'ls -l /var/db/mylar/cache' in the transmission jail.

 

[escrima]

can you show 'ls -l /var/db/mylar/cache' in the transmission jail.

Code:

root@transmission_1:/ # ls -l /var/db/mylar/cache							   
total 70472																	 
-rw-------  1 media  media	   494 Mar  8 21:24 .32p_cookies.dat			 
-rw-------  1 media  media	366673 Mar  8 20:55 96284.jpg					 
-rw-------  1 media  media		 0 Mar  8 22:04 Clean-newreleases.txt		 
-rw-------  1 media  media	 31886 Mar  8 21:24 Doctor_Aphra_2_2017.torrent   
-rw-------  1 media  media	 24273 Mar  8 21:09 Doctor_Aphra_5_2017.torrent   
-rw-------  1 media  media	 31886 Mar  8 21:24 Star_Wars_Doctor_Aphra_2_2017.
torrent																		 
-rw-------  1 media  media	 24273 Mar  8 21:09 Star_Wars_Doctor_Aphra_5_2017.
torrent																		 
-rw-------  1 media  media	 25052 Mar  8 22:04 newreleases.txt			   
-rw-------  1 media  media   2503504 Mar  8 20:51 temp.jpg					 
-rwxrwxrwx  1 media  media  69083502 Mar  8 20:51 temp.zip			

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

Code:

root@transmission_1:/ # ls -l /var/db/mylar/cache							  
total 70472																	
-rw-------  1 media  media	   494 Mar  8 21:24 .32p_cookies.dat			
-rw-------  1 media  media	366673 Mar  8 20:55 96284.jpg					
-rw-------  1 media  media		 0 Mar  8 22:04 Clean-newreleases.txt		
-rw-------  1 media  media	 31886 Mar  8 21:24 Doctor_Aphra_2_2017.torrent  
-rw-------  1 media  media	 24273 Mar  8 21:09 Doctor_Aphra_5_2017.torrent  
-rw-------  1 media  media	 31886 Mar  8 21:24 Star_Wars_Doctor_Aphra_2_2017.
torrent																		
-rw-------  1 media  media	 24273 Mar  8 21:09 Star_Wars_Doctor_Aphra_5_2017.
torrent																		
-rw-------  1 media  media	 25052 Mar  8 22:04 newreleases.txt			  
-rw-------  1 media  media   2503504 Mar  8 20:51 temp.jpg					
-rwxrwxrwx  1 media  media  69083502 Mar  8 20:51 temp.zip			

mylar is writting those files in a way only the owner user can read/write them. I'm not sure if mylar chooses the permissions it writes with, or if these are just inherited by the directory it is in.

Are you sure that is a good directory for mylar to write .torrent files to? Maybe you could change this to the default watch directory for transmission.
Or, does mylar have transmission API support?

 

[escrima]

There's no option to change where it initially downloads the torrents. I THINK it uses API for transmission, it needs the rpc path to communicate. Other wise, there's a completely separate black hole option for a watch dir.

This was working flawlessly a week ago.

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

strange, one thing to try is to change the directory permissions and see if future torrent files follow that.
chmod 775 /var/db/mylar/cache

 

[escrima]

strange, one thing to try is to change the directory permissions and see if future torrent files follow that.
chmod 775 /var/db/mylar/cache

As root?

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

As root?

yeah, or the 'media' user.

 

[escrima]

no effect with chmod

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

no effect with chmod

you tried a new download and the torrent file still had 600 permissions?

If mylar requires user permissions, then you probably have to change the user tranmission runs as