Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:30:14 -0400 From: bbs@mail.ie To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: command-line bittorrent utility Message-ID: <9f8af95f0806261630l4c30db6dw58d771aa697ce63b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <486422EF.3070501@FreeBSD.org> References: <486422EF.3070501@FreeBSD.org>
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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 <kris@freebsd.org> 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 "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- jt
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