Thanks to you and Jari for the prompt response. here are my tests.
on_open Triggers when rtorrent is shut and restarted - emails sent out. Stop and restart the torrent file - no email is sent out :) when torrent is finished - both finished and started emails are sent out :( on_insert Triggers when rtorrent is shut and restarted - emails sent out. but when I put a torrent file into the watch directory I get the following error:- "Download event action failed: Bad return code." on_insert = notify_start,"execute=$d.get_custom3=,$d.get_hash=,$d.get_name=" Adrian Josef Drexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > On Sep 2, 2008, at 7:47 AM, Adrian Miller wrote: > > I am using the on_start command to send an > e-mail when a file is > > uploaded to the watch directory, and the > on_finished to send an e- > > mail when the file has finished. > > > > The basics of it is working quite well, however > if I was to stop a > > torrent and restart it it would then send out > another start e-mail. > > > > Also when a torrent has finished it send out its > finished e-mail > > and another started email, it would guess that > the torrent is > > restarted for seeding hence the additional start > e-mail. > > > > is there another command that only looks at the > .torrent file the > > first time it is picked up in the watch > directory? > > There are also on_open and on_insert. The latter would trigger again > whenever you restart rtorrent, but otherwise only once per download. > I'm not sure whether on_open gets triggered after the hash check > temporarily closes the download when it's done. > > -- > Josef Drexler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Libtorrent-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://rakshasa.no/mailman/listinfo/libtorrent-devel ___________________________________ Hoppy's Webmail _______________________________________________ Libtorrent-devel mailing list [email protected] http://rakshasa.no/mailman/listinfo/libtorrent-devel

