From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 13 20:35:26 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 392B087F for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2014 20:35:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nightmare.dreamchaser.org (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [12.32.44.142]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E7DEC7AD for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2014 20:35:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from breakaway.dreamchaser.org (breakaway.dreamchaser.org. [12.32.36.73]) by nightmare.dreamchaser.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id s8DKZEiF079302; Sat, 13 Sep 2014 14:35:15 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Message-ID: <5414AA82.9090903@dreamchaser.org> Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 14:35:14 -0600 From: Gary Aitken Reply-To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon Subject: Re: torrent recommendation References: <54147E6D.7020200@dreamchaser.org> <20140913193257.cd04f37c.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20140913193257.cd04f37c.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [12.32.36.65]); Sat, 13 Sep 2014 14:35:15 -0600 (MDT) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 20:35:26 -0000 On 09/13/14 11:32, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 11:27:09 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: >> I've never dealt with a torrent download but now need to >> get something that is >> only available in that form. >> >> Looking for recommendations of a simple way to go in terms >> of a ports client. > > I've been using ctorrent for that purpose. It's quick to > install and easy to use: > > % ctorrent > > See "ctorrent -h" for options, but basically, the default > settings are fine. Thanks. Having installed that and attempted to download, I see the following when doing "ctorrent -v wikipedia-schools-3.0.1.tar.gz.torrent: META INFO Announce: udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80/announce Alternates: 1. udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80/announce 2. udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969/announce 3. http://academic-p2p.appspot.com/announce 4. http://academic-p2p.carlosdelfino.eti.br/announce Created On: Fri Oct 4 08:19:41 2013 Piece length: 4194304 Comment: Officially sanctioned download of http://schools-wikipedia.org/ Created with: qBittorrent v3.0.11 FILES INFO <1> wikipedia-schools-3.0.1.tar.gz [5376284089] Total: 5127 MB Found bit field file; verifying previous state. Listening on 0.0.0.0:2706 Press 'h' or '?' for help (display/control client options). Checking completed. - 0/0/1 [0/1282/0] 0MB,0MB | 0,0K/s | 0,0K E:0,0 Connecting ... a bunch of the above line 1410637552 Check: 228 skipped 1410637552 Check: 229 skipped 1410637552 Check: 230 skipped 1410637552 Check: 231 skipped ... 1410637552 Check: 1280 skipped 1410637552 Check: 1281 skipped 1410637552 Cache: 0K/16M Hits: 0 Miss: 0 0% Pre: 0/0 ... repeats with ...553-560 1410637561 Cache: 0K/16M Hits: 0 Miss: 0 0% Pre: 0/0 1410637562 DL need: 0K UL need: 0K Cache: 16K Used: 0K What are all the check: skipped things? What are the Cache lines? ctorrent -h shows an example of ctorrent -s new_filename -e 12 -C 32 -p 6881 example.torrent What's the 6881? The -p option doesn't take an argument according to the help text, but it appears to be the port number; but there's no cmd line summary to indicate what the syntax is. How do I tell if it's actually succeeding, since the output file is pre-allocated? It says "listening on 0.0.0.0:2706" What's with the 0.0.0.0 IP, and if I have my firewall setup with 6881-6999 open with "setup keep-state" enabled, will that open up 2706 appropriately? If I try the ctorrent site recommended in ctorrent -h, I get: News Can't connect to mysql4-c as c91688ro MySQL Error: Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 113 This script cannot continue, terminating. I installed ctcs and it shows nothing happening... In order to run ctcs, I had to perl -Tw /usr/local/bin/ctcs Is that normal? Or is the install deficient in setting the privileges on /usr/local/bin/ctcs? Thanks, Gary