RTorrent
From ComputingPlugs
rTorrent is a great torrent application in my opinion. It runs entirely from a console so you can put it behind a screen session and is light weight. The best function of rTorrent has got to be directory monitoring. Directory monitoring allows you to simply put a torrent file into the monitored directory and rTorrent will then start the torrent automatically without any user intervention. All the basic options are there such as upload/download limits, ratios and others. There is an excellent rTorrent user guide here.
To top it all off, to get rTorret for the Sheeva Plug, just type:
apt-get install rtorrent
To start rTorret behind a screen session, type the following:
screen -dmS torrent rtorrent
That will start a screen session named torrent and start rtorrent. When you want to see what rtorrent is doing, type
screen -r torrent
If you add the above command to your crontab, you can start rtorrent automatically every boot.
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May 18 2009 3:48 pm
Please keep comments clean and constructive. Inappropriate comments will be removed. Thank you.
Aug 11 2009 3:48 am
A tutorial on how to install wTorrent on the SheevaPlug would be really awesome. (wTorrent is a web interface to rtorrent)
Aug 12 2009 7:03 pm
Hmmm....It shouldn't be too hard to install wtorrent. Apache is easy enough to setup and mod-scgi for apache is in the repository. The only other thing is wTorrent itself.
Aug 21 2009 6:31 am
I like btpd, a BitTorrent daemon, and Enhanced Ctorrent.
Oct 26 2009 2:44 am
no graphs for rTorrent ?
with the version I use at home, I graph a couple of rTorrent vitals with Munin :
- rTorrent memory usage
- rTorrent peer statistics
- rTorrent speeds
- rTorrent volume
rTorrent is queried over xmlrpc by Munin plugins, and I graph with drraw (better look than stock Munin graphs)
and by the way, your website learnt me a lot of things about the Sheeva, thanks ! (I still don't know whether I'll buy one or a small Atom nettop, but you answered a lot of my issues)
Oct 26 2009 1:03 pm
I don't run rtorrent enough for me to really look into characterizing its performance. I can tell you that it seems to be about as good as when I used to run it on my desktop (core2).
Oct 26 2009 9:25 pm
I don't graph rTorrent for performance checking, only to have an eye on it and because it's fun :) (and a no-brainer...)
Nov 13 2009 5:38 am
Transmission also offers a webinterface. And you only have to install the package transmission-daemon. It is easy to set up and use, but does not provide as many configuration options as rtorrent/wtorrent.
Dec 03 2009 6:11 am
Dumb question. Could the plug be used as a wireless router? Hook up a ATT usb air card and use it in place of ATT DSL? I know it would be slower but would it work? 9.99/month + 15.00 unlimited internet is cheaper that 47.00 month we are paying now.
Dec 07 2009 11:43 am
I don't see why it wouldn't work, as long as a driver exist for the ATT usb air card. So I would test it out on a regular linux box first to see if it works before trying it on the sheevaplug.
Jul 20 2010 4:10 pm
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