control script for transmission; you'll need to roll your own settings.json

transmission.initd

#!/bin/bash

TRHOME=$( readlink -f $( dirname $0 ) )
# mkdir -p complete config incomplete logs torrents
PIDFILE=$TRHOME/logs/transmission.pid

dostart() {
    cd $TRHOME
    transmission-daemon \
        --config-dir $TRHOME/config \
        -ep \
        --peerport 51413 \
        --allowed '172.27.*' \
        --logfile $TRHOME/logs/transmission.log \
        --pid-file $PIDFILE \
        --log-info \
        --watch-dir $TRHOME/torrents/ \
        --incomplete-dir $TRHOME/incomplete \
        --download-dir $TRHOME/complete/
}

dostop() {
    kill $( cat $PIDFILE )
}

dostatus() {
    if [ -s $PIDFILE ]; then
        pid=$( cat $PIDFILE )
        if test -e /proc/$pid/cmdline && grep -sq transmission /proc/$pid/cmdline; then
            echo "running (pid $pid)"
        else
            echo "not running (pid file found)"
        fi
    else
        echo "not running"
    fi
}


case "$1" in
    start )
        dostart
        ;;

    stop )
        dostop
        ;;

    restart )
        stop && start
        ;;

    status )
        dostatus
        ;;

    * )
        echo "Usage: $0 [ start | stop | status | restart ]" >&2
        exit 1
esac