hotdog666al Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 I have an always-on linux box in my house and would like to start using that for Bit Torrent. I've installed cTorrent but don't know where to go from there, my box uses Fedora core 6 in command line mode, but can go into X if needed. Ideally, it would be nice to set up a system where I can drop .torrent files into an "Incoming" folder and have them be downloaded into a "Finished" folder, both of which being Samba shares. I'd be able to get that working with Windows uTorrent, but I want it working on my Linux box really. :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted January 13, 2008 Veteran Share Posted January 13, 2008 cTorrent seems to be a client, so I was going to look closer and see CTorrent discontinued -- 2006-06-07 15:46:51While this is old news, I thought I'd put it up on the webpage as an official annoucement. The ctorrent project has been cancelled (finally!). Ever since the main developer, YuHong, left the project back in 2004 there has not been a single release. on their sourceforge page.Are you trying to set up a bittorrent server? Or just a client to download (and optionally seed) what you tell it to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotdog666al Posted January 13, 2008 Author Share Posted January 13, 2008 Just a client, I'm not going to use it to seed heavily. There is another one called RTorrent. I have installed both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Veteran Posted January 14, 2008 Veteran Share Posted January 14, 2008 Have you tried Deluge? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
night_stalker_z Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 You can try Azureus or qBittorrent. http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ http://qbittorrent.sourceforge.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinetix63 Veteran Posted January 14, 2008 Veteran Share Posted January 14, 2008 If you're running in command line mode - google for TorrentFlux. In itself, it's just a PHP front end to BitTornado, but it is a VERY good little system, and doesn't require you to run X or anything else on your linux box. Highly reccomend it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurmoth Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 moved from Linux Server/BSD/Unix to Linux Client Support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GatorV Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 You can also try ?Torrent via Wine, it works very good:)) I use it in my ubuntu box.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foub Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Just a client, I'm not going to use it to seed heavily.There is another one called RTorrent. I have installed both. Ktorrent and Deluge are very good clients and they are update often. In the case of Deluge it is also cross platform as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotdog666al Posted January 14, 2008 Author Share Posted January 14, 2008 If you're running in command line mode - google for TorrentFlux. In itself, it's just a PHP front end to BitTornado, but it is a VERY good little system, and doesn't require you to run X or anything else on your linux box. Highly reccomend it. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/www/html/torrentflux/TF_BitTornado/btphptornado.py", line 451, in ? run(argv[1],argv[2],argv[3],argv[4],argv[5:]) File "/var/www/html/torrentflux/TF_BitTornado/btphptornado.py", line 387, in run h.failed() File "/var/www/html/torrentflux/TF_BitTornado/btphptornado.py", line 118, in failed self.writeStatus() File "/var/www/html/torrentflux/TF_BitTornado/btphptornado.py", line 278, in writeStatus raise KeyboardInterrupt KeyboardInterrupt :( Torrents die instantly and apache log shows this ^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotdog666al Posted January 14, 2008 Author Share Posted January 14, 2008 http://www.torrentflux.com/forum/index.php/topic,1451.0.html Dw it works now! Thanks this is grrrrrreat! :D I'd like to be able to set speeds to go RIGHT DOWN during daytime though, if any torrentflux users here know how, let me know please. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinetix63 Veteran Posted January 15, 2008 Veteran Share Posted January 15, 2008 You can't really do that through TF itself - you need to do it through other linux processes. I had the same issue as you and I could never figure out how to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotdog666al Posted January 15, 2008 Author Share Posted January 15, 2008 Hmmm, when I get home tonight (and after MacWorld buzz) I'm going to find a way of doing this. Leet markjensen, do you know any apps that can schedule-throttle speeds for certain processes or ports? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted January 15, 2008 Veteran Share Posted January 15, 2008 I'm hardly "leet", more just a Linux user (as opposed to admin). Under my avatar, it clearly states I am a "noob" :p :blush: However, googling shows that others have used iptables to flag traffic and use it for bandwidth shaping. I don't know if any nice GUI tools exist for this, and while I understand how this might work on a distant high-altitude overview, the exact mechanics are unfamiliar, as I don't work much with iptables directly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whiffle Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 I would suggest rtorrent. You can run it with screen, and it has watch folder capability. Works great for me. Its command line, but hey, GUI is overrated anyway. http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/ho...ent-like-a-pro/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotdog666al Posted January 15, 2008 Author Share Posted January 15, 2008 (edited) I'm hardly "leet", more just a Linux user (as opposed to admin). Under my avatar, it clearly states I am a "noob" :p :blush:However, googling shows that others have used iptables to flag traffic and use it for bandwidth shaping. I don't know if any nice GUI tools exist for this, and while I understand how this might work on a distant high-altitude overview, the exact mechanics are unfamiliar, as I don't work much with iptables directly. Cool I will check it out. Meh so hard! Edited January 15, 2008 by hotdog963al Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotdog666al Posted January 15, 2008 Author Share Posted January 15, 2008 Is there any command or program I can use to open and close ports or port ranges? Then I can set it up using cron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted January 15, 2008 Veteran Share Posted January 15, 2008 iptables can be told to "DROP" traffic based on port. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotdog666al Posted January 15, 2008 Author Share Posted January 15, 2008 Port throttling apparently doesn't work. I tried it and it seems to keep going, although not accept any new incoming connections. what I've done is- set up a cronjob with: 00 9 * * * /usr/bin/killall /usr/bin/python -s SIGSTOP >/dev/null 2>&1 50 23 * * * /usr/bin/killall /usr/bin/python -s SIGCONT >/dev/null 2>&1 Works for me :p And yes, that freezes all my python scripts but I only use this so it's ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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