FS#9143 - Transmission daemon script is non-standard

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Thursday, 10 January 2008, 06:10 GMT
Last edited by Alexander Fehr (pizzapunk) - Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 00:07 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

The transmissiond daemon script is the only one which checks for root when run. And does not output usage like everything else.

I'd recommend NOT checking for root, and only checking/using TRANS_USER when the user is root
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Closed by  Alexander Fehr (pizzapunk)
Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 00:07 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  transmission-cli 1.22-1
Comment by Varun Acharya (ganja_guru) - Tuesday, 05 February 2008, 15:55 GMT
I went through the daemon script and I'm not able to understand what exactly you want.. Perhaps you can post your edits to the script here and I'll try to merge them in?
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Tuesday, 05 February 2008, 17:11 GMT
Well, for starters run it without args as a normal user, and then run, say, network without args as a normal user.

In fact, if you do that in a loop:
for x in /etc/rc.d/*; do $x; done

The only one which fails is transmission.

Many of our other daemons require root to run, but none check for it. Further more, transmissiond can be run as a user just fine.
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Sunday, 04 May 2008, 20:19 GMT
also this needs to be assigned to someone else. Oh it seems Roman is the transmission maintainer now :)

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