TRANSMISSION-DAEMON(1)

NAME
transmission-daemon - a bittorrent client

SYNOPSIS
transmission-daemon -h
transmission-daemon [-a x.x.x.x,...] [-b | -B] [-c directory] [-C] [-d] [-f] [-g directory] [-h] [-p port] [-t | -T] [-u username] [-v password] [-P port] [-m | -M] [-l limit] [-L limit] [-er | -ep | -et] [-utp | -no-utp] [-V] [-w download-dir] [-e logfile] [-x pid-file] [-log-error | -log-info | -log-debug]

DESCRIPTION
transmission-daemon is a daemon-based Transmission session that can be controlled via RPC commands from transmission's web interface or transmission-remote(1).

OPTIONS

-a --allowed 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,::1" Example: "127.0.0.*,192.168.1.*"

-b --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.

-c --watch-dir 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.

-C  Do not watch for new .torrent files.

-B --no-blocklist
    Disable blocklists.

-d --dump-settings
    Dump transmission-daemon's settings to stderr.

-f --foreground
    Run in the foreground and print errors to stderr.

-g --config-dir directory
    Where to look for configuration files. This can be used to swap between using the cli, daemon, gtk, and qt clients. See https://github.com/transmission/transmission/blob/main/docs/Configuration-Files.md for more information.

-er --encryption-required
    Encrypt all peer connections.

-ep --encryption-preferred
    Prefer encrypted peer connections.

-et --encryption-tolerated
    Prefer unencrypted peer connections.

-gsr --global-seedratio ratio
    All torrents, unless overridden by a per-torrent setting, should seed until a specific ratio

-GSR --no-global-seedratio
    All torrents, unless overridden by a per-torrent setting, should seed regardless of ratio

-h --help
    Print command-line option descriptions.

--incomplete-dir dir
    When adding new torrents, store their contents in directory until the torrent is done.

--no-incomplete-dir
    Don't store incomplete torrents in a different directory.

-i --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)

-I --bind-address-ipv6
    Listen for IPv6 BitTorrent connections on a specific address. Only one IPv6 listening address is allowed. Default: :: (All addresses)

-r --rpc-bind-address
    Listen for RPC connections on a specific address. This must be an IPv4 or IPv6 address. Only one RPC listening address is allowed. Default: 0.0.0.0 (All IPv4 addresses)

--paused
    Pause all torrents on startup

-L --peerlimit-global limit
    Overall peer limit. Useful on embedded systems where the default might be unsuitable. Default: 240

-l --peerlimit-torrent limit
    Peer limit per torrent. Useful on embedded systems where the default might be unsuitable. Default: 60

-m --portmap
    Enable portmapping via NAT-PMP or UPnP

-M --no-portmap
    Disable portmapping

-o --dht
    Enable distributed hash table (DHT).

-O --no-dht
    Disable distributed hash table (DHT).

-p --port port
    Port to open and listen for RPC requests on. Default: 9091

-P --peerport port
    Port to listen for incoming peers on. Default: 51413

-t --auth
    Require clients to authenticate themselves. This doesn't do much good unless username and password are also set.

-T --no-auth
    Don't require authentication from clients.

-u --username username
    Used for client authentication.

-v --password password
    Used for client authentication.

-V --version
    Show version number and exit

--utp
    Enable uTP for peer connections.

--no-utp
    Disable uTP for peer connections.

-w --download-dir
    Where to store downloaded data.

-e --logfile
    Where to store transmission's log messages.

--log-level level
    Log level. Must be 'critical', 'error', 'warn', 'info', 'debug', or 'trace'.

--log-error
    Deprecated. Use --log-level=error

--log-info
    Deprecated. Use --log-level=info

--log-debug
    Deprecated. Use --log-level=debug

-x --pid-file
    Name of PID file

ENVIRONMENT

http_proxy
    libcurl uses this environment variable when performing tracker announces.

TRANSMISSION_HOME
    Sets the default config-dir.

FILES
~/.config/transmission-daemon
    The config-dir used when neither [TRANSMISSION_HOME] nor [-g] is specified. See https://github.com/transmission/transmission/blob/main/docs/Configuration-Files.md for more information.

AUTHORS
-nosplit Charles Kerr, Josh Elsasser, Eric Petit, Mitchell Livingston, and Mike Gelfand.

SEE ALSO
transmission-create(1), transmission-daemon(1), transmission-edit(1), transmission-gtk(1), transmission-qt(1), transmission-remote(1), transmission-show(1)

https://transmissionbt.com/