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milasch

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From: Toronto, ON

Registered: 2009-05-21

Posts: 100

Use command line bittorrent client to seed only

Assuming I have an 8GB file stored in /home/user/store/some_file and a .torrent file stored in /home/user/store/some_file.torrent

I want to use a command line client (bittorrent or bittornado) to seed the file to others in my LAN.

If I do:

user@host:/home/user/store$ /usr/bin/btdownloadheadless --minport 6000 --maxport 8999 /home/user/store/some_file.torrent

It for some reason downloads the file (???) instead of simply seeding it?

How can I accomplish this?

DSpider

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From: Romania

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 2,273

Re: Use command line bittorrent client to seed only

It for some reason downloads the file (???) instead of simply seeding it?

I'm just guessing here but couldn't "/usr/bin/btdownloadheadless" have anything to do with it?

From the command line you can also use rtorrent or deluged (the Deluge daemon) running in the background.

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alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Re: Use command line bittorrent client to seed only

Does it download the file to /home/user/store with the name some_file , overwriting your existing file?

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