Enable logging for service
I fixed it in the meanwhile. There is a file in /etc/default/
named transmission-daemon
as well (see below). This file has an instantiation for the OPTIONS
parameter. I just added --logfile /path/to/logfile
and it worked fine!
# 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 /path/transmission.log"
# (optional) extra options to start-stop-daemon
#START_STOP_OPTIONS="--iosched idle --nicelevel 10"
Jonathan Hagen
PhD student Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Jonathan Hagen almost 2 years
I'm trying to figure out how to enable logging in Transmission.
I know I can run the daemon in the foreground:
transmission-daemon -f --logfile /your/path/to/transmission.log
But this is not what I want. I want to enable this option (
logfile
) in the service instance.I've discovered that running
sudo service transmission-daemon
executes the file located in/etc/init.d/transmission-daemon
. This file (as shown below) doesn't really make me any wiser.So far, I understand the following:
--exec $DAEMON -- $OPTIONS
executes the effective daemon. This file (as seen in the variable on top of the script) is located in/usr/bin/$NAME
.$NAME
istransmission-daemon
. This is an executable located in there.So I think you can pass it some options (e.g.,
--logfile
). I added an instantiation of theOPTIONS
variable but this doesn't seem to write anything.I tried the
OPTIONS=" --logfile /smb/torrents/transmission.log"
line so that it might append them to the execution but it throws an error.Another thing I tried was using the option without any quotes.
OPTIONS= -e /smb/torrents/transmission.log
This throws the same error:
:~$ sudo service transmission-daemon restart /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon: 15: /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon: -e /smb/torrents/transmission.log: not found
Doing the above without
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doesn't show me any errors, but doesn't write to the log file either.Adding the
--logfile
option after the execution--exec $DAEMON --logfile /path/file -- $OPTIONS
yields another error as well:* Restarting bittorrent daemon transmission-daemon start-stop-daemon: unrecognized option '--logfile'
The logfile has sufficient permissions, though:
-rwxrwxrwx 1 debian-transmission debian-transmission 0 Dec 30 11:14 transmission.log*
My question is, how to do this exactly?
#!/bin/sh -e ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: transmission-daemon # Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs $network # Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs $network # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: Start or stop the transmission-daemon. ### END INIT INFO NAME=transmission-daemon DAEMON=/usr/bin/$NAME USER=debian-transmission STOP_TIMEOUT=30 OPTIONS=" --logfile /smb/torrents/transmission.log" export PATH="${PATH:+$PATH:}/sbin" [ -x $DAEMON ] || exit 0 [ -e /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME . /lib/lsb/init-functions start_daemon () { if [ $ENABLE_DAEMON != 1 ]; then log_progress_msg "(disabled, see /etc/default/${NAME})" else start-stop-daemon --start \ --chuid $USER \ $START_STOP_OPTIONS \ --exec $DAEMON -- $OPTIONS fi } case "$1" in start) log_daemon_msg "Starting bittorrent daemon" "$NAME" start_daemon log_end_msg 0 ;; stop) log_daemon_msg "Stopping bittorrent daemon" "$NAME" start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet \ --exec $DAEMON --retry $STOP_TIMEOUT \ --oknodo log_end_msg 0 ;; reload) log_daemon_msg "Reloading bittorrent daemon" "$NAME" start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet \ --exec $DAEMON \ --oknodo --signal 1 log_end_msg 0 ;; restart|force-reload) log_daemon_msg "Restarting bittorrent daemon" "$NAME" start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet \ --exec $DAEMON --retry $STOP_TIMEOUT \ --oknodo start_daemon log_end_msg 0 ;; status) status_of_proc "$DAEMON" "$NAME" && exit 0 || exit $? ;; *) echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/$NAME {start|stop|reload|force-reload|restart|status}" exit 2 ;; esac exit 0