I am having a question on GNU/Linux Debian 8.5 with transmission-daemon
service.
I fail to see if there is a problem with how I set-up its log file. Because the log file does't grow (actually there's nothing).
First the manual:
-e --logfile
Where to store transmission's log messages.
--log-error
Show error messages
--log-info
Show error and info messages
--log-debug
Show error, info, and debug messages
Now, I will tell you all changes I've made today step by step:
I edited the default config file, cat /etc/default/transmission-daemon
:
# defaults for transmission-daemon
# sourced by /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon
# Change to 0 to disable daemon
ENABLE_DAEMON=1
# This directory stores some runtime information, like torrent files
# and links to the config file, which itself can be found in
# /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json
CONFIG_DIR="/var/lib/transmission-daemon/info"
# Default options for daemon, see transmission-daemon(1) for more options
OPTIONS="--config-dir $CONFIG_DIR --logfile /raid5/transmission/transmission.log --log-debug"
# (optional) extra options to start-stop-daemon
#START_STOP_OPTIONS="--iosched idle --nicelevel 10"
Is it a permission problem?
ls -l /raid5/transmission/transmission.log
-rwxrwx--- 1 debian-transmission debian-transmission 0 Aug 2 16:06 /raid5/transmission/transmission.log
ls -ld /raid5/transmission/
drwxrwx--- 3 debian-transmission debian-transmission 4096 Aug 2 16:06 /raid5/transmission/
I added myself (vlastimil
) to debian-transmission
group, though I believe this allows me to access the data and has nothing to do with logging:
sudo usermod -a -G debian-transmission vlastimil
I changed the ownership of /raid5/transmission/
, which, among other things, allows me to download new torrents:
chown -R debian-transmission:debian-transmission /raid5/transmission/
I granted all permissions, that could be needed:
chmod 770 /raid5/transmission/
While having stopped the service, I edited /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json
to have umask
= 2:
cat /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json | grep umask
"umask": 2,
And of course I restarted service:
service transmission-daemon restart
Downloading and uploading works fine now, just the log is empty :/ Any clues?