Daemon gear

Moving right along in the continued migration to transmission, its in and running in deamon mode on the command line, flexget is in and tested. Just need to add flexget to cron and make sure transmission-deamon starts at system bootup. Ok SMF script needed, being an inherently lazy unix guy , I'll just google that and and yes number one with the bullet I find this over on 4amlunch.net thanks to wonko. A quick mod on the TRANSMISSION_HOME to suit my local setup and and transmission-daemon is running from SMF. flexget cronjob added all should be good to go. I'll wait an hour let the cron job run it's course and see what we get.

Egg head

Ok I'm a total Python newbie. I need to install flexget to use with my new transmission setup, it's a python based app and comes as an .egg file. Seems the best way to install these is with something call easy_install.

pkg search -l easy_install

Shows easy_install is part of the python setup tools package. So just go ahead and install that.

pfexec pkg install pkg:/library/python-2/setuptools-26

Then use easy_install to install the flexget along with all it's dependencies.

pfexec easy_install http://download.flexget.com/unstable/FlexGet-1.0r1226-py2.6.egg

I'm going to be using the transmissionrpc module so I need to install that to.

pfexec easy_install transmissionrpc

Thats it done, flexget installed. Check out the flexget site to configure it for your needs.

Changing Torrent

I'm going to be offloading my torrents to my soon to be new headless file server so changes are needed. I've been using vuze since long before it was vuze, and have a nice comfortable setup. I guess my requirements have changed a little, I don't need fancy features now offered, I won't have the same luxurious memory setup as I currently have, I'm not found of it's remote interface and, as they say a change it as good as a holiday. Time to broaden my horizons . So what I need from a BT client

• runs on OpenSolaris
• operates headless
• able to read and process rss feeds
• and operate without constant fiddling

So I didn't look to hard, or broaden too much transmission is available for install as an IPS for OpenSolaris, I have also been able to compile a more recent version if required, it will operate headless, has what appears to be usable web interface if required. It does however weriously lacks and ability to read and parse rss feeds to bring the automation I need. Enter flexget, multipurpose automation tool, I'm not apposed to running to different pieces of software to do the job after all it was a plug in doing the work in vuze, and I am a unix guy.

So the plan, replace vuze with transmission and flexget.