Running a Torrent tracker on Ubuntu Revision as of 18:47, 17 December 2013 by Arjun Suresh (talk | contribs) (diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

• sudo apt-get install bittornado
• mkdir ~/.bttrack
• mkdir ~/btfiles
• bttrack --port 6969 --dfile ~/.bttrack/dstate --logfile ~/.bttrack/tracker.log --nat_check 0 --scrape_allowed full --allowed_dir $HOME/btfiles --parse_dir_interval 10 --allow_get 1
• firefox http://localhost:6969

To make it a startup script, create a skeleton with the following 

mkdir /torrent

DAEMON_ARGS="--dfile /var/run/bttrack/dstate --logfile /var/log/bttrack.log
  --port 6969 --nat_check 0 --scrape_allowed full --allowed_dir /torrent/btfiles"

Creating a Torrent file

• sudo apt-get install bittornado
• btmakemetafile http://localhost:6969/announce SOURCE --target OUTPUT.torrent

Optional argument: --piece_size_pow2 SIZE

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