Antoine Martin <anto...@nagafix.co.uk> posted 49777778.1000...@nagafix.co.uk, excerpted below, on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:28:56 +0700:
> I am looking for an easy-to-setup bittorrent tracker for a small list of > large files that I manage. > I found some good/comprehensive instructions here: > http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/lpt/a/6153 > But unfortunately this means that the tracker can be used by anyone > to track new torrents, and this is not acceptable for my purpose. Did you try the following as quoted from your link above, or is it simply incorrect? >> You can prevent other people from using your tracker -- >> as postgresql.org does, by the way -- by telling bttrack to track >> only those torrents of which it has copies in a user-defined >> directory. For example, if I place a copy of the pg_live torrent >> file in a directory where bttrack can see it, it will limit the >> tracker to file sharing for just pg_live. That's the purpose of >> the --show_names and --allowed_dir switches: >> >> $ bttrack --port 8099 --show_names 1 --allowed_dir ~/mytorrents \ >> --dfile downloadinfo.txt -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
