Headless torrent downloads with rTorrent and Screen
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 10.214.77.99]
on June 13, 2008 07:34 PM
If you want to lighten your memory & processor utilization, you should stop by http://www.nslu2-linux.org HowTo Recipes. They've several HowTos on a few different Torrent clients with Screen and Dtach (http://dtach.sf.net).
For something simple as rTorrent which offers an XML-RPC API for activity management, dtach may be a better combination (strip'd, the dtach executable is <13K, strip'd & gzexe'd = 6.7K)
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Headless torrent downloads with rTorrent and Screen
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 10.214.77.99] on June 13, 2008 07:34 PMhttp://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/RtorrentLikeAPro
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/KeepRemoteConsoleSessionRunning
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/BitTorrent
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/OpenSlug/InstallCtorrent
For something simple as rTorrent which offers an XML-RPC API for activity management, dtach may be a better combination (strip'd, the dtach executable is <13K, strip'd & gzexe'd = 6.7K)
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/InstallRtorrentOnDebain (rTorrent and Perl's XML-RPC)
Dtach is pure ANSI C and compiles on most *nix systems without issue (some AIX my have psuedo terminal issues, google for it).
I switched from Screen to dtach and haven't gone back. Only if I need multiple tab-like terminal through one console terminal will use Screen.
Hope this helps you for more than your Torrents.
Later, Mr. Markus (Mark S.)
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