From now on we can d/l and share isos via torrent as you can read here:
http://de.news.siduction.org/2012/10/17/umgang-mit-mirror-und-torrents/
This will help siduction to not exceed the limit of 10 TByte Traffic for free per month.
Since sidux days I was complaining about torrents being offered too late, if at all. Times and names have changed, people have moved on and had come together again here at siduction. Now it has become possible to share siduction as soon as new isos are released.
As I am an addict of the Opera browser (the only closed source program I use) I used its built in torrent function. This unfortunatly has the drawback that I am stopping seeding when I close the browser. Good news: I have Opera open more ore less the whole day.
Nonetheless, i'd like to have a CL-torrent-client which should get started automaticly at boot time to seed my siduction isos. Although I am familiar with mldonkey since years I'd like to find an easier to use CL-client for this purpose (mldonkey is installed on my server, which is online seldomly).
What I would like to find is a utility which I (and all others!) could easily configure to start within the folder my (or their) siduction isos are in ... and be done with it (except when we d/l the next release!).
I found
apt-cache show unworkable
strange name. But I like its simple man page. Unfortunately I did not get it to work, for me it was really unworkable. A pity, as it seemed to be what I was looking for. May be it is and I was too stupid.
To cut a long story short:
What would you recommed as background utility for sharing isos via torrent with low footprint regarding HW.
Does anyone get unworkable to work?
Alternatives? transmission? deluge-console? other?
apt-cache show transmission deluge-console
Or nevertheless mldonkey-server? Don't know.
I really would like it very much to have *us* ready to d/l and share the isos via torrent when siduction 12.2.* is released.[/code]
rtorrent :)
+1 for rtorrent
I use deluged with deluge-web and webui.
Add it to autostart and it will run without gui.
Connect to localhost:port and you can configure your torrents.
Advantage to the opera torrent, torrents do not stop if you close the browser.
And to rtorrent. Not as much work to get it going.
rtorrent does not seem to be easily configurable, and ncurses over screen sound wired. I have no doubt rtorrent is torrents swiss knife, tough.
What about ctorrent, has someone experience?
And a general question about torrent software: how do clients handle (router-) ip changes after reboot? Is it part of the common protocoll to update ips periodically and make them available to the tracker?
I really would like to hear form experienced people how to *re-* share (i.e. I have the complete file downloaded and the original *.torrent, but I need to change torrent client and/or location of the downloaded file) How do I do this with a thin client normaly running in background as a service (preferably not ktorrent, and rtorrent still does not convince me).
It seems ctorrent comes in handy:
The Debian manpage is partly wrong!, and incomplete, but you can find a correct and up to date version here:
http://www.rahul.net/dholmes/ctorrent/userguide.html
I now managed to solve re-seeding with ctorrent issuing within the folder containing the siduction.iso
$ ctorrent -s siduction-12.1.7-paintitblack-nox-i386-201210150034.iso -u http://linuxtracker.org:2710/00000000000000000000000000000000/announce -p <port> siduction-12.1.7-paintitblack-nox-i386-201210150034.torrent<port> must be forwarded in your router!
You may sent this process in the background using additionally the -d option or using the Operator Menu. You then will not be able to see this process running in your xterm unless you did use ctorrent with screen (did not try; maybe at this point ctorrent comes close to rtorrent).
If you put the above command in a script and the script into autostart you will begin to share with low footprint each time you login into your DE .
(I am not familiar with scripts, so if someone could help out it'll be much appreciated)