On Wednesday 12 January 2005 03:27 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Wednesday 12 January 2005 06:33, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 January 2005 02:31 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > > Sounds like something with bittorrent. What did the error > > > message say ? What torrent were you downloading/uploading ? > > > Did you set your firewall to open for torrents ? > > > > > > Kaj Haulrich. > > > > It does, doesn't it? The error message was something about time > > out, bad info on file or somesuch. It was Lokitorrent, and it was > > a movie. :-) > > > > Yes, I had done a service shorewall stop (I know, I should set it > > to open the individual ports). So the 6xxx ports should have been > > open. Besides, I've d'/led other bittorrent files this way, no > > problem. > > > > I still don't see what it did to my /home directory that the > > reiserfs couldn't handle. :-( > > Just a guess : the message "bad info on file" + shorewall stopped > could mean you have been compromised somehow. On other > file-sharing networks like kazaa it's common to find malware, > uploaded by the RIAA-type companies in order to scare people off. > On the other hand, it's unlikely they could come up with something > able to run on Linux. > > Another guess : were you running out of space on the /home > partition ? - Some movies consume more than 2-3 GB ? - Do you > have partmon running ?
/home or /tmp or where ever bt is storing the download until it writes to the completed file? > > When I use bittorrent I always open ports 6xxx only. Never had a > problem and I often leave it running for a considerable time after > finishing the download. I don't know what happens if - let's say - > you've only one peer and that one suddenly shuts down ? > > Did you get the problem fixed somehow ? > > Kaj Haulrich. -- linux counter #167806 (http://counter.li.org/) website="http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.org";
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