.Dd July 21, 2008 .Dt TRANSMISSION-DAEMON 1 .Sh NAME .Nm transmission-daemon .Nd a bittorrent client .Sh SYNOPSIS .Bk -words .Nm transmission-daemon .Fl h .Nm .Op Fl a Ar x.x.x.x,... .Op Fl b | B .Op Fl c Ar directory .Op Fl C .Op Fl f .Op Fl g Ar directory .Op Fl h .Op Fl p Ar port .Op Fl t | T .Op Fl u Ar username .Op Fl v Ar password .Op Fl P Ar port .Op Fl m | M .Op Fl l Ar limit .Op Fl L Ar limit .Op Fl er | ep | et .Op Fl V .Op Fl w Ar download-dir .Ek .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm is a daemon-based Transmission session that can be controlled via RPC commands from transmission's web interface or .Xr transmission-remote 1 . .Sh OPTIONS .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Fl a Fl -allowed Ar x.x.x.x,... Allow RPC access to a comma-delimited whitelist of IP addresses. Wildcards can be specified in an address by using '*'. Default: "127.0.0.1" Example: "127.0.0.*,192.168.1.*" .It Fl b Fl -blocklist Enable peer blocklists. Transmission understands the bluetack blocklist file format. New blocklists can be added by copying them into the config-dir's "blocklists" subdirectory. .It Fl c Ar directory Directory to watch for new .torrent files to be added. As they are added to this directory, the daemon will load them into Transmission. .It Fl C Do not watch for new .torrent files. .It Fl B Fl -no-blocklist Disble blocklists. .It Fl f Fl -foreground Run in the foreground and print errors to stderr. .It Fl g Fl -config-dir Ar directory Where to look for .torrent and config files on startup. .It Fl er Fl -encryption-required Encrypt all peer connections. .It Fl ep Fl -encryption-preferred Prefer encrypted peer connections. .It Fl et Fl -encryption-tolerated Prefer unencrypted peer connections. .It Fl h Fl -help Print command-line option descriptions. .It Fl i Fl -bind-address-ipv4 Listen for IPv4 BitTorrent connections on a specific address. Only one IPv4 listening address is allowed. Default: 0.0.0.0 (All addresses) .It Fl I Fl -bind-address-ipv6 Listen for IPv6 BitTorrent connections on a specific address. Only one IPv6 listening address is allowed. Default: :: (All addresses) .It Fl r Fl -rpc-bind-address Listen for RPC connections on a specific address. This must be an IPv4 address. Only one RPC listening address is allowed. Default: 0.0.0.0 (All addresses) .It Fl L Fl -peerlimit-global Ar limit Overall peer limit. Useful on embedded systems where the default might be unsuitable. Default: 240 .It Fl l Fl -peerlimit-torrent Ar limit Peer limit per torrent. Useful on embedded systems where the default might be unsuitable. Default: 60 .It Fl m Fl -portmap Enable portmapping via NAT-PMP or UPnP .It Fl M Fl -no-portmap Disable portmapping .It Fl p Fl -port Ar port Port to open and listen for RPC requests on. Default: 9091 .It Fl P, -peerport Ar port Port to listen for incoming peers on. Default: 51413 .It Fl t Fl -auth Require clients to authenticate themselves. This doesn't do much good unless .Ar username and .Ar password are also set. .It Fl T Fl -no-auth Don't require authentication from clients. .It Fl u Fl -username Ar username Used for client authentication. .It Fl v Fl -password Ar password Used for client authentication. .It Fl V Fl -version Show version number and exit .It Fl w Fl -download-dir Where to store downloaded data. .El .Sh ENVIRONMENT .Bl -tag -width Fl .It Ev TRANSMISSION_HOME Sets the default config-dir. .El .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width Ds -compact .It ~/.config/transmission-daemon The config-dir used when neither .Op Ev TRANSMISSION_HOME nor .Op Fl g is specified. .El .Sh AUTHORS .An -nosplit .An Charles Kerr , .An Josh Elsasser , .An Eric Petit , and .An Mitchell Livingston . .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr transmissioncli 1 , .Xr transmission 1 , .Xr transmission-remote 1 .Pp http://www.transmissionbt.com/