How to control all the actions of transmission client

A uTorrent like cross platform remote control for the Transmission BitTorrent client (transmission-daemon) transmission-remote-java is a cross platform open source remote client to the RPC interface of transmission-daemon, which is part of the Transmission BitTorrent client.

The application is cross-platform and can be downloaded here.

In windows, you can make a shortcut to point to the .jar file. The path should be something like:

"C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\java.exe" -jar "C:\Program Files\transmission-remote-java-0.12.16-1034-bin.jar"

where:
- C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\java.exe is the path to your java sdk installation directory
- C:\Program Files\transmission-remote-java-0.12.16-1034-bin.jar is the path to .jar file

Download error on torrent start - transmission webui

If you get a nasty error about "Download error" in your download folder, is because you need to setup proper username/group permission. By default, transmission uses the group and the user called "debian-transmission".

Let's say download directory is /home/username/downloads.

sudo usermod -a -G debian-transmission username

where username is your username. with this command you are being added to debian-transmission group.

sudo chmod 0770 /home/username/downloads -R

this will set the owner and the group users to read/write/execute on this folder.

sudo chgrp debian-transmission /home/username/downloads -R

chgrp will change recursively the content of download folder to group "debian-transmission"

How to find out what version of ubuntu i'm running?

If you don't have a GUI interface and you wanna find out what version of Ubuntu server you have, just run the followig command:

cat /etc/issue

It should tell you something like this:

Ubuntu 10.10 \n \l

What libraries do i need to install webmin on Ubuntu 10.10?

To install Webmin on your Ubuntu machine, you are going to need some libraries pre-installed. These libraries are:

sudo apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl apt-show-versions python python-minimal libapt-pkg-perl perl-base perl-modules

You can also read the rest of the process of installing Webmin on Ubuntu.

How to see HDD temperatures under Ubuntu server

There is a small apllication called hddtemp, which shows you the temperature of your HDD by reading data from S.M.A.R.T. on drives that support this feature. Most modern x86 computer hard disk comes with S.M.A.R.T (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology). It is a monitoring system for computer hard disks to detect and report on various indicators of reliability, in the hope of anticipating failures.

sudo apt-get install hddtemp

then run it for your /dev/sda hard drive:

sudo hddtemp /dev/sda

it should print something like this:

/dev/sda: WDC WD10EARS-003BB1: 36°C

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