This shell script takes care of starting and stopping transmission daemon on Openfiler distro

transmission

#!/bin/sh
#
#  Created 2011-01-18 by tdebarochez
#
# transmission  This shell script takes care of starting and stopping
#               transmission daemon.
#
# chkconfig: - 90 10
# description: transmission is a daemon for a bittorent client
# processname: transmission

# Source function library
if [ -f /etc/init.d/functions ]; then
. /etc/init.d/functions
elif [ -f /etc/rc.d/functions ]; then
. /etc/rc.d/functions
fi

BIN=/usr/local/bin/transmission-daemon
LOCKFILE=/var/lock/subsys/transmission
USER=transmission
ARGS="--log-info -e /var/log/transmission.log --config-dir /opt/config/transmission-daemon/"

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
  start)
        # Start daemons.
        echo -n "Starting transmission : "
        daemon --user $USER $BIN $ARGS 2> /dev/null
        echo
        touch $LOCKFILE
        ;;
  stop)
        # Stop daemons.
        echo -n "Shutting down transmission : "
        killproc $BIN
        echo
        rm -f $LOCKFILE
        ;;
  restart)
        $0 stop
        $0 start
        ;;
  status)
        status $BIN
        ;;
  reload)
        [ ! -f $LOCKFILE ] && echo "transmission daemon is not running" && exit 1
        echo -n "Reloading transmission : "
        killall -HUP "`basename $BIN`"
        [ "$?" -ne "0" ] && failure "transmission reload" && echo && exit 1
        success "transmission successfully reloaded"
        echo
        ;;
  *)
        echo "Usage: service ransmission {start|stop|restart|status|reload}"
        exit 1
esac

exit 0

Put this script in /etc/init.d/, run chmod +x on it and execute :
chkconfig --add transmission && chkconfig --level 2345 transmission on