Seems to be working for me. I thought the .tricksy file worked for me last night, but I just turned on btdownload on this new .torrent and it seems to be downloading more...weird.
Bryan On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 08:31, Gary Thornock wrote: > OK, now we get to find out if I did all this right: > > http://thornock.homelinux.com/novell-brainshare.torrent > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Soren Harward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 08:58 > > To: BYU Unix Users Group > > Subject: Re: [uug] Torrent troubles? > > > > > > On Tue 30 Mar 2004 at 08:30:31, Gary Thornock said: > >> I wouldn't mind setting something up, but I don't know > >> enough about bittorrent. (That is, I know how to download > >> just fine, but I've never tried to run a tracker before.) > >> Any quick instructions on setting it up? > > > > It took me about 10 minutes yesterday: > > > > 1. Set up the tracker: > > > > $ bttrack.py --port PORTNUMBER --dfile /path/to/some/writable/file > log & > > > > Notes: > > the tracker must run on a publicly-addressable host, hopefully with good > > bandwidth > > the dfile is a data file where the tracker stores status information > > redirect standard output to a log file > > run it in the background > > > > 2. Create the .torrent file: > > > > $ btmakemetafile.py FILE_TO_SHARE \ > > http://trackerurl.example.com:PORTNUMBER/announce > > > > Notes: > > FILES_TO_SHARE is either a single file, or a directory with several files > > you can't specify multiple files on the command-line; put them in a > > directory instead > > btmakemetafile will generate the .torrent file, which is a small static file > > that can be shared from any webserver. The .torrent contains > > information about the files being shared, and the location of the > > tracker > > the "file" /announce is hard-coded into the tracker, so change the host > > and the port number, but not the /announce part of the URI > > > > 3. Put the .torrent file up on a webserver: > > > > Notes: > > Make sure your webserver will report "application/x-bittorrent" as the > > MIME type for .torrent files. You can do this by adding > > > > AddType application/x-bittorrent .torrent > > > > to the appropriate place in your Apache httpd.conf > > > > 4. Start up a seed: > > > > $ btdownloadheadless.py --url http://www.example.com/my.torrent \ > > --saveas /path/to/shared/file > > > > Notes: > > you can use the curses or gui front end just as well > > the --url is the URL of where you put the .torrent file in step #3 > > the --saveas is where you have the copies of the file you are sharing. > > this will cause the downloader to realize "oh wait, I already have > > these files in their entirety, so I will just act as an uploader." > > This is called a "seed." > > > > 5. Announce the location of the .torrent and have people start testing it. > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
