Introduction

This is a modified version of the Transmission BitTorrent client, based on the official 4.1.2 release.

What can it do

• Block bad clients such as Thunder (Xunlei).
• Block P2P media players such as Xfplay.
• Block bad offline downloaders such as BaiduNetdisk.

Build (Only for Ubuntu ≥20.04)

    $ sudo apt update
    $ sudo apt install build-essential automake autoconf cmake libtool pkg-config intltool libcurl4-openssl-dev libglib2.0-dev libevent-dev libminiupnpc-dev libgtk-3-dev libgtkmm-3.0-dev libglibmm-2.4-dev libssl-dev libsystemd-dev
    $ git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/zyjking/Transmission-modified Transmission
    $ cd Transmission
    $ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .
    $ cmake --build .
    $ sudo cmake --install .

Sample of a systemd unit file

Locate the /usr/lib/systemd/system directory and create a file named transmission-daemon.service with the following content.
Make sure the user transmission exists, or use another user as an alternative.

[Unit]
Description=Transmission BitTorrent Daemon
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
User=transmission
Type=notify
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/transmission-daemon -f --log-level=error
CapabilityBoundingSet=
LockPersonality=true
MemoryDenyWriteExecute=true
NoNewPrivileges=true
PrivateTmp=true
ProtectClock=true
ProtectControlGroups=true
ProtectHostname=true
ProtectKernelModules=true
ProtectKernelTunables=true
ProtectProc=invisible
ProtectSystem=true
SystemCallArchitectures=native

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Sample of an init.d script

Locate the /etc/init.d directory and create a file named transmission-daemon with the following content.

#!/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.
# Description:       Enable service provided by transmission-daemon.
### END INIT INFO

NAME=transmission-daemon
DAEMON=/usr/bin/$NAME
USER=debian-transmission
STOP_TIMEOUT=30

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)"
		log_end_msg 255 || true
    else    
        start-stop-daemon --start \
        --chuid $USER \
		$START_STOP_OPTIONS \
        --exec $DAEMON -- $OPTIONS || log_end_msg $?
		log_end_msg 0
    fi
}

case "$1" in
    start)
        log_daemon_msg "Starting bittorrent daemon" "$NAME"
        start_daemon
        ;;
    stop)
        log_daemon_msg "Stopping bittorrent daemon" "$NAME"
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet \
            --exec $DAEMON --retry $STOP_TIMEOUT \
            --oknodo || log_end_msg $?
        log_end_msg 0
        ;;
    reload)
        log_daemon_msg "Reloading bittorrent daemon" "$NAME"
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet \
            --exec $DAEMON \
            --oknodo --signal 1 || log_end_msg $?
        log_end_msg 0
        ;;
    restart|force-reload)
        log_daemon_msg "Restarting bittorrent daemon" "$NAME"
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet \
            --exec $DAEMON --retry $STOP_TIMEOUT \
            --oknodo || log_end_msg $?
        start_daemon
        ;;
    status)
        status_of_proc "$DAEMON" "$NAME" && exit 0 || exit $?
        ;;
    *)
        log_action_msg "Usage: /etc/init.d/$NAME {start|stop|reload|force-reload|restart|status}" || true
        exit 2
        ;;
esac

exit 0

Credits

• Transmission: fork source

Licenses

Comply with the original project's license.