[ubuntu-uk] How to torrent on a remote machine: was:Idea- Torrents!

[Javad Ayaz]

didnt someone just say its not possible? lol

On 29/04/2008, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 14:03 +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote:
> > or ill just say its part of my going green aim!!! lol
>
> An admirable goal. Certainly a little nslu2 and a usb drive will take
> much less power than a multi-core CPU machine with a monster video card,
> driving a flat panel.
>
> What I do is have an old PC I was given for nothing which draws about
> 30W. It's a Dell Optiplex G1, which has the following specification:-
>
> $ grep MHz /proc/cpuinfo  # 400MHz CPU
> cpu MHz         : 398.790
>
> $ grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo  # 192MiB RAM
> MemTotal:       190740 kB
>
> $ df | head -n 2
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on # 6GB Disk
> /dev/sda1             5.7G  4.3G  1.1G  81% /
>
> Which is running Ubuntu Hardy Server (upgraded from Gutsy, previously
> upgraded from Feisty). I put it on my network and installed the
> necessary packages to enable me to logon to it:-
>
> (all the commands below are run on the server)
>
> $ sudo apt-get install ssh
>
> And then installed the rtorrent package to enable me to download
> torrents:-
>
> $ sudo apt-get install rtorrent
>
> Next we install the program "screen" which allows things to carry on
> running when you're disconnected:-
>
> $ sudo apt-get install screen
>
> Then on my desktop PC I go and find a torrent I want to download, ah,
> here is one:-
>
> http://releases.ubuntu.com/hardy/ubuntu-8.04-alternate-i386.iso.torrent
>
> I then open a terminal on my desktop and ssh from my desktop to the
> server:-
>
> $ ssh 192.168.129.5
>
> (Note: 192.168.129.5 is the IP address my server has, yours may be
> different of course depending upon how you configured your network)
>
> I then get the torrent to the server machine:-
>
> $ wget
> http://releases.ubuntu.com/hardy/ubuntu-8.04-alternate-i386.iso.torrent
>
> Which gives output that looks like this:-
>
> http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org/872
>
> Then run rtorrent:-
>
> $ screen -S hardytorrent rtorrent ubuntu-8.04-alternate-i386.iso.torrent
>
> This then gives a screen which looks like this:-
>
> http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org/873
>
> (which shows that it's _just_ started downloading).
>
> A few minutes have now passed since I typed that and thanks to the
> lovely people at Ubuntu, and the equally lovely people at Virgin Media
> (providing me with a 20Mb/s connection) I get something like this:-
>
> http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org/874
>
> Look at him go! 2 MegaBytes a second.
>
> Ok, I need to go for a cup of tea, and maybe shutdown my desktop for
> some contrived reason, so I press the following keys in the rtorrent
> session:-
>
> CTRL+A then D
>
> The word "[detached]" appears, which shows that I am no longer attached
> to the screen session. I can now logout of the server with:-
>
> CTRL+D
>
> Now I could shutdown my desktop, go to bed and dream of torrents.
>
> Time passes...
>
> WAKEY WAKEY! Rise and Shine! It's morning, which must mean it's time to
> check the torrents!
>
> So, we boot up the desktop and then ssh to the server:-
>
> $ ssh 192.168.129.5
>
> Now, lets see if that screen session (containing rtorrent) is still
> running by just typing this:-
>
> $ screen -ls
> There is a screen on:
>        21100.hardytorrent      (Detached)
> 1 Socket in /var/run/screen/S-alan.
>
> So that means that my rtorrent is probably still running but nobody is
> attached, watching it. Lets re-attach to screen to see if it's finished
> torrenting the ISO image:-
>
> $ screen -r hardytorrent
>
> Ooh, it's finished:-
>
> http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org/876
>
> (Note: I actually stopped rtorrent by accident and restarted it, but it
> carried on regardless)
>
> When finished, if I want to quit rtorrent (and hence screen) I press:-
>
> CTRL+q
>
> I then see:-
>
> [screen is terminating]
>
> Job done.
>
> I can now copy the files over from the server to my desktop using the
> Ubuntu/Gnome places menu to create a connection to my server.
>
> My manky old PC actually also has a USB drive attached, so I could
> rtorrent directly to it rather than store on the small internal hard
> disk, but as you can see, my usb disk is a bit full too :)
>
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdb1             699G  690G  9.3G  99% /media/750GDisk
>
> :)
>
> Hope that's helpful.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
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