Uploading of Bit torrent files

[Darryl Clarke]

On Apr 10, 2005 11:09 AM, russell cook <ruscook_oz at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>  Hi folks
>  I've d/l'd hoary via bit torrent and left my machine on for the last 24-36
> hrs so others could benefit from the download, and indeed about 2.6 GB was
> uploaded from my machine. I don't have the traffic volumes to maintain a
> mirror but would be more than happy to set up a bittorrent in the
> background. I've since moved the iso's form my download directory to my
> distro store. SO I need to know how to set up an ongoing  Bit torrent
> commandline process to allow upload from my machine.
>  
>  Any tips or how to's on this?

If you're using the btdownload client, change dir's to where the .iso is; then

btdownloadcurses --url http://the-url-to-the-matching/iso.torrent
--max_upload_bytes X

where the-url is whichever ISO you want to seed, and X is the upload
cap you want to set (omit it if you like!)

It'll then verify the file in the current dir and start seeding.

I usually use the 'curses' client when console. You can use
btdownloadgui or btdownloadheadless too, they take the same
parameters.


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