Re: command-line bittorrent utility
Jille Timmermans wrote: (enhanced) ctorrent Seems to fail requirement a). Am I wrong? Kris Kris Kennaway schreef: I am looking for a command-line utility that can fetch via bittorrent that a) doesn't use curses. It must be usable in a script and without a tty! b) doesn't use X11. Must be a command-line utility! c) Must be able to inform the script when the transfer is complete. A callback mechanism of some kind is fine as long as it doesn't require polling. This is for distribution of files within a LAN and WAN: I have some large files that I need to distribute to many machines, and pushing them all out multiple times from the server is inefficient. Things that come close: * The python implementation, but it doesn't seem to work very reliably. I get errors and exceptions from both the client and server when transferring a file with only two machines participating. * http://www.murmeldjur.se/btpd/ is a daemon with command line client. It doesn't provide for c), and it also doesn't work reliably. * Not much else. Surely I am not the first person to want to use bittorrent in a script? Kris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: command-line bittorrent utility
Kris Kennaway wrote: I am looking for a command-line utility that can fetch via bittorrent [...] OK folks, you can stop telling me to use ctorrent now :) I had looked at that but assumed it was using curses (it's not). Thanks! Kris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: command-line bittorrent utility
(enhanced) ctorrent Kris Kennaway schreef: I am looking for a command-line utility that can fetch via bittorrent that a) doesn't use curses. It must be usable in a script and without a tty! b) doesn't use X11. Must be a command-line utility! c) Must be able to inform the script when the transfer is complete. A callback mechanism of some kind is fine as long as it doesn't require polling. This is for distribution of files within a LAN and WAN: I have some large files that I need to distribute to many machines, and pushing them all out multiple times from the server is inefficient. Things that come close: * The python implementation, but it doesn't seem to work very reliably. I get errors and exceptions from both the client and server when transferring a file with only two machines participating. * http://www.murmeldjur.se/btpd/ is a daemon with command line client. It doesn't provide for c), and it also doesn't work reliably. * Not much else. Surely I am not the first person to want to use bittorrent in a script? Kris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: command-line bittorrent utility
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: I am looking for a command-line utility that can fetch via bittorrent that a) doesn't use curses. It must be usable in a script and without a tty! b) doesn't use X11. Must be a command-line utility! c) Must be able to inform the script when the transfer is complete. A callback mechanism of some kind is fine as long as it doesn't require polling. This is for distribution of files within a LAN and WAN: I have some large files that I need to distribute to many machines, and pushing them all out multiple times from the server is inefficient. More choices: 1. /usr/ports/net-p2p/transmission 2. /usr/ports/net-p2p/transmission-daemon Sean -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: command-line bittorrent utility
Kris, just at a first glance i noticed wikipedia had a pretty good breakdown of some clients available -- this isn't meant to be rude RTFM at all -- :) -- i just thought it might be helpful -- maybe not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_client respectfully, jt On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for a command-line utility that can fetch via bittorrent that > > a) doesn't use curses. It must be usable in a script and without a tty! > > b) doesn't use X11. Must be a command-line utility! > > c) Must be able to inform the script when the transfer is complete. A > callback mechanism of some kind is fine as long as it doesn't require > polling. > > This is for distribution of files within a LAN and WAN: I have some large > files that I need to distribute to many machines, and pushing them all out > multiple times from the server is inefficient. > > Things that come close: > > * The python implementation, but it doesn't seem to work very reliably. I > get errors and exceptions from both the client and server when transferring > a file with only two machines participating. > > * http://www.murmeldjur.se/btpd/ is a daemon with command line client. It > doesn't provide for c), and it also doesn't work reliably. > > * Not much else. > > Surely I am not the first person to want to use bittorrent in a script? > > Kris > > ___ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > -- jt ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: command-line bittorrent utility
On 6/27/08, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jille Timmermans wrote: >> (enhanced) ctorrent > > Seems to fail requirement a). Am I wrong? > > Kris > enhanced ctorrent is actual ctorrent from ports. it doesnt use ncurses. ldd /usr/local/bin/ctorrent /usr/local/bin/ctorrent: libssl.so.5 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.5 (0x280a7000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x280e8000) libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x281db000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x281f4000) libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x281ff000) libcrypto.so.5 => /lib/libcrypto.so.5 (0x28306000) transmission also doesnt use ncurses. the only one I'm aware of that use ncurses is rtorrent. >> >> Kris Kennaway schreef: >>> I am looking for a command-line utility that can fetch via bittorrent >>> that >>> >>> a) doesn't use curses. It must be usable in a script and without a tty! >>> >>> b) doesn't use X11. Must be a command-line utility! >>> >>> c) Must be able to inform the script when the transfer is complete. A >>> callback mechanism of some kind is fine as long as it doesn't require >>> polling. >>> >>> This is for distribution of files within a LAN and WAN: I have some >>> large files that I need to distribute to many machines, and pushing >>> them all out multiple times from the server is inefficient. >>> >>> Things that come close: >>> >>> * The python implementation, but it doesn't seem to work very >>> reliably. I get errors and exceptions from both the client and server >>> when transferring a file with only two machines participating. >>> >>> * http://www.murmeldjur.se/btpd/ is a daemon with command line client. >>> It doesn't provide for c), and it also doesn't work reliably. >>> >>> * Not much else. >>> >>> Surely I am not the first person to want to use bittorrent in a script? >>> >>> Kris >>> >>> ___ >>> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> >> > > ___ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
