Uploading of Bit torrent files

[russell cook]

Thanks Darryl will give this a try.

On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 14:17 -0400, Darryl Clarke wrote:

> On Apr 10, 2005 11:09 AM, russell cook <ruscook_oz at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> >  Hi folks
> >  I've d/l'd hoary via bit torrent and left my machine on for the last 24-36
> > hrs so others could benefit from the download, and indeed about 2.6 GB was
> > uploaded from my machine. I don't have the traffic volumes to maintain a
> > mirror but would be more than happy to set up a bittorrent in the
> > background. I've since moved the iso's form my download directory to my
> > distro store. SO I need to know how to set up an ongoing  Bit torrent
> > commandline process to allow upload from my machine.
> >  
> >  Any tips or how to's on this?
> 
> If you're using the btdownload client, change dir's to where the .iso is; then
> 
> btdownloadcurses --url http://the-url-to-the-matching/iso.torrent
> --max_upload_bytes X
> 
> where the-url is whichever ISO you want to seed, and X is the upload
> cap you want to set (omit it if you like!)
> 
> It'll then verify the file in the current dir and start seeding.
> 
> I usually use the 'curses' client when console. You can use
> btdownloadgui or btdownloadheadless too, they take the same
> parameters.
> 
> 
> -- 
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> 

Kind Regards Russell
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