Kris, just at a first glance i noticed wikipedia had a pretty good breakdown of some clients available -- this isn't meant to be rude RTFM at all -- :) -- i just thought it might be helpful -- maybe not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_client respectfully, jt On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for a command-line utility that can fetch via bittorrent that > > a) doesn't use curses. It must be usable in a script and without a tty! > > b) doesn't use X11. Must be a command-line utility! > > c) Must be able to inform the script when the transfer is complete. A > callback mechanism of some kind is fine as long as it doesn't require > polling. > > This is for distribution of files within a LAN and WAN: I have some large > files that I need to distribute to many machines, and pushing them all out > multiple times from the server is inefficient. > > Things that come close: > > * The python implementation, but it doesn't seem to work very reliably. I > get errors and exceptions from both the client and server when transferring > a file with only two machines participating. > > * http://www.murmeldjur.se/btpd/ is a daemon with command line client. It > doesn't provide for c), and it also doesn't work reliably. > > * Not much else. > > Surely I am not the first person to want to use bittorrent in a script? > > Kris > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > -- jt _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"