Transmission File Permissions

[armorer1984]

I am having trouble deleting/modifying the contents of files created by the Transmission application. I tried to follow the instructions from the Wiki (http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Transmission), but for some reason there is nothing in the folder /var/lib/transmission.

Shouldn't there be a .config directory? If not, where did the settings.json file run off to?

[acemilo]

I'm having the same problem. I followed everything in the wiki, and I cannot delete anything from the torrents share, even as root. If anyone has any insight on this one, it'd be much appreciated. I have a ton of stuff I want to delete from my Torrents share, but it just always says permission denied no matter what I do.

[bigfoot65]

Recommend you take a look at this thread. I believe I have seen this before in the forums and it was resolved by the user.

http://forums.amahi.org/viewtopic.php?f ... ermissions

[acemilo]

Recommend you take a look at this thread. I believe I have seen this before in the forums and it was resolved by the user.

http://forums.amahi.org/viewtopic.php?f ... ermissions

I took a look at that and that did not solve my issue. I am the owner of the files (chown'd them and chmod 777'd them) and I am also in the Transmission group. As far as I can tell, I should be able to remove the files, but I can't.

I also ran an id and got this:
[admin@localhost Torrents]$ id
uid=500(admin) gid=100(users) groups=100(users)
[admin@localhost Torrents]$

It doesn't appear I'm part of the transmission group, but no matter what I do it won't add me.

[bigfoot65]

Might require a reboot. I have had files locked somehow in Linux and only way to get rid of them was reboot.

[acemilo]

Unfortunately I've restarted several times since I noticed this with no effect.

[bigfoot65]

That is odd. Maybe google about it. I am sure this must be something Fedora or Linux related. The app cannot lock files as far as I know.

[acemilo]

Wow I actually fixed it! Ok, so usermod -G users transmission did nothing, but usermod -G transmission admin got me in the right group AFTER stopping the service. However, I still was unable to delete stuff. Oddly enough, restarting AFTER I successfully added myself to the group did fix it. Thanks for the help!

[bigfoot65]

Awesome. When/if you have time, can you add some guidance to the wiki? This would help other users who may have similar problems in the future.

http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Transmission

[acemilo]

Awesome. When/if you have time, can you add some guidance to the wiki? This would help other users who may have similar problems in the future.

http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Transmission

Done and done. Hopefully this helps someone else. This is the second wiki edit I've contributed! Go me!