Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 14:35:14 -0600 From: Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: torrent recommendation Message-ID: <5414AA82.9090903@dreamchaser.org> In-Reply-To: <20140913193257.cd04f37c.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <54147E6D.7020200@dreamchaser.org> <20140913193257.cd04f37c.freebsd@edvax.de>
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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 <torrent-file> > > 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
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