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Thanks Darryl will give this a try.<BR>
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On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 14:17 -0400, Darryl Clarke wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Apr 10, 2005 11:09 AM, russell cook <<A HREF="mailto:ruscook_oz@yahoo.com.au">ruscook_oz@yahoo.com.au</A>> wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Hi folks</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I've d/l'd hoary via bit torrent and left my machine on for the last 24-36</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> hrs so others could benefit from the download, and indeed about 2.6 GB was</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> uploaded from my machine. I don't have the traffic volumes to maintain a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> mirror but would be more than happy to set up a bittorrent in the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> background. I've since moved the iso's form my download directory to my</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> distro store. SO I need to know how to set up an ongoing Bit torrent</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> commandline process to allow upload from my machine.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Any tips or how to's on this?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">If you're using the btdownload client, change dir's to where the .iso is; then</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">btdownloadcurses --url <A HREF="http://the-url-to-the-matching/iso.torrent">http://the-url-to-the-matching/iso.torrent</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">--max_upload_bytes X</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">where the-url is whichever ISO you want to seed, and X is the upload</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">cap you want to set (omit it if you like!)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">It'll then verify the file in the current dir and start seeding.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I usually use the 'curses' client when console. You can use</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">btdownloadgui or btdownloadheadless too, they take the same</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">parameters.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">-- </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">~ Darryl ~ <A HREF="mailto:smartssa@gmail.com">smartssa@gmail.com</A></FONT>
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Kind Regards Russell<BR>
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