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spkag

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From: France

Registered: 2010-03-31

Posts: 24

[SOLVED] Rtorrent configuration trouble

Hey all !

First of all, I wanna say that I've been an Ubuntu user for some years now, and I've only tried Arch a few times, without taking the time to configure it.
Now that I did it, I can say I won't leave Arch ! Hell it's an amazing distro ! Simple, lightweight, powerful...

Being a big Bit Torrent user, I've figured out rtorrent's what I'm looking for. I love this lightweight client. I got some problems configuring it though.
I'm apart of three different private trackers and I'm trying to make it use three separated directories for every three trackers I use so it's easier for me to manage them.

This is my tree view... :

| ../
|-> Tracker1
|    -> Snatched
|    -> Uploaded
|-> Tracker2
|    -> Snatched
|    -> Uploaded
|-> Tracker3
|    -> Snatched
|    -> Uploaded
|-> Unfinished
|

... and my experimental .rtorrent.rc which doesn't work :

# This is an example resource file for rTorrent. Copy to
# ~/.rtorrent.rc and enable/modify the options as needed. Remember to
# uncomment the options you wish to enable.

# NECESSARY FOR YOUR WEBUI, DO NOT COMMENT THESE OUT.
scgi_port = 127.0.0.1:5000
encoding_list = UTF-8

# Maximum and minimum number of peers to connect to per torrent.
min_peers = 10
max_peers = 65536

# Same as above but for seeding completed torrents (-1 = same as downloading)
min_peers_seed = 10
max_peers_seed = 65536

# Maximum number of simultanious uploads per torrent.
max_uploads = 65536

# Global upload and download rate in KiB. "0" for unlimited.
download_rate = 1
upload_rate = 0

http_capath=/etc/ssl/certs

# Default session directory. Make sure you don't run multiple instance
# of rtorrent using the same session directory. Perhaps using a
# relative path?
session = /home/sebastien/.session

# Default directory to save the downloaded torrents.
directory = /media/BitTorrent/Unfinished

schedule = watch_directory,10,10,"load_start=/media/BitTorrent/Tracker1/Torrents/Uploaded/*.torrent,d.set_custom1=/media/BitTorrent/Tracker1/Uploaded"
schedule = watch_directory_2,10,10,"load_start=/media/BitTorrent/Tracker1/Torrents/Snatched/*.torrent,d.set_custom1=/media/BitTorrent/Tracker1/Snatched"

schedule = watch_directory_3,10,10,"load_start=/media/BitTorrent/Tracker2/Torrents/Uploaded/*.torrent,d.set_custom1=/media/BitTorrent/Tracker2/Uploaded"
schedule = watch_directory_4,10,10,"load_start=/media/BitTorrent/Tracker2/Torrents/Snatched/*.torrent,d.set_custom1=/media/BitTorrent/Tracker2/Snatched"

schedule = watch_directory_5,10,10,"load_start=/media/BitTorrent/Tracker3/Torrents/Uploaded/*.torrent,d.set_custom1=/media/BitTorrent/Tracker3/Uploaded"
schedule = watch_directory_6,10,10,"load_start=/media/BitTorrent/Tracker3/Torrents/Snatched/*.torrent,d.set_custom1=/media/BitTorrent/Tracker3/Snatched"

#move to custom dir based on watch folder when finished
system.method.set_key = event.download.finished,move_complete,"execute=mv,-u,$d.get_base_path=,$d.get_custom1= ;d.set_directory=$d.get_custom1="

schedule = tied_directory,10,10,start_tied=
schedule = untied_directory,10,10,remove_untied=;system.file_status_cache.cache.prune=

# Stop torrents when reaching upload ratio in percent,
# when also reaching total upload in bytes, or when
# reaching final upload ratio in percent.
# example: stop at ratio 2.0 with at least 200 MB uploaded, or else ratio 20.0
#schedule = ratio,60,60,"stop_on_ratio=200,200M,2000"

# The ip address reported to the tracker.
#ip = 127.0.0.1
#ip = rakshasa.no

# The ip address the listening socket and outgoing connections is
# bound to.
#bind = 127.0.0.1
#bind = rakshasa.no

# Port range to use for listening.
port_range = 6890-6999

# Start opening ports at a random position within the port range.
port_random = no

# Check hash for finished torrents. Might be usefull until the bug is
# fixed that causes lack of diskspace not to be properly reported.
check_hash = no

# Set whetever the client should try to connect to UDP trackers.
use_udp_trackers = no

# Alternative calls to bind and ip that should handle dynamic ip's.
#schedule = ip_tick,0,1800,ip=rakshasa
#schedule = bind_tick,0,1800,bind=rakshasa

# Encryption options, set to none (default) or any combination of the following:
# allow_incoming, try_outgoing, require, require_RC4, enable_retry, prefer_plaintext
#
# The example value allows incoming encrypted connections, starts encrypted
# outgoing connections but retries with plaintext if they fail, preferring
# RC4 to plaintext after the encrypted handshake
#
encryption = require

# Enable DHT support for trackerless torrents or when all trackers are down.
# May be set to "disable" (completely disable DHT), "off" (do not start DHT),
# "auto" (start and stop DHT as needed), or "on" (start DHT immediately).
# The default is "off". For DHT to work, a session directory must be defined.
# 
dht = disable

# UDP port to use for DHT. 
# 
# dht_port = 6881

# Enable peer exchange (for torrents not marked private)
#
peer_exchange = no

#
# Do not modify the following parameters unless you know what you're doing.
#

# Hash read-ahead controls how many MB to request the kernel to read
# ahead. If the value is too low the disk may not be fully utilized,
# while if too high the kernel might not be able to keep the read
# pages in memory thus end up trashing.
#hash_read_ahead = 10

# Interval between attempts to check the hash, in milliseconds.
#hash_interval = 100

# Number of attempts to check the hash while using the mincore status,
# before forcing. Overworked systems might need lower values to get a
# decent hash checking rate.
#hash_max_tries = 10

This has a weird behavior as folders with all my downloaded torrents appear in my home directory and it doesn't recognize directories it should actually use.

Thanks in advance for reading and helping me !

Sebastian

Last edited by spkag (2010-04-03 12:07:30)

d2ogch3n

Member

Registered: 2010-01-20

Posts: 42

Re: [SOLVED] Rtorrent configuration trouble

Could be a permissions issue. /media is owned by root and is where mounted media resides. Is your download tree on external media? You could try moving the tree inside your home folder and see if that works.

spkag

Member

From: France

Registered: 2010-03-31

Posts: 24

Re: [SOLVED] Rtorrent configuration trouble

Hey d2ogch3n!

/dev/sda4 mounted in /media/BitTorrent is just a dedicated partitions for sharing over the net.

It's too huge so I can't move it to my home folder. Anyway I don't think it's a permission issue as I own /media/BitTorrent. It's even chmod 777.

EDIT : I think I did it ! I'll post later to confirm.

EDIT 2 :

This worked for me :

directory = /media/BitTorrent/Unfinished/

schedule = watch_directory_1,10,10,"load_start=/media/BitTorrent/Tracker1/Torrents/Uploaded/*.torrent,d.set_custom1=/media/BitTorrent/Tracker1/Uploaded/"
schedule = watch_directory_2,10,10,"load_start=/media/BitTorrent/Tracker1/Torrents/Snatched/*.torrent,d.set_custom1=/media/BitTorrent/Tracker1/Snatched/"

schedule = watch_directory_3,10,10,"load_start=/media/BitTorrent/Tracker2/Torrents/Uploaded/*.torrent,d.set_custom1=/media/BitTorrent/Tracker2/Uploaded/"
schedule = watch_directory_4,10,10,"load_start=/media/BitTorrent/Tracker2/Torrents/Snatched/*.torrent,d.set_custom1=/media/BitTorrent/Tracker2/Snatched/"

#schedule = watch_directory_5,10,10,"load_start=/media/BitTorrent/Tracker3/Torrents/Uploaded/*.torrent,d.set_custom1=/media/BitTorrent/Tracker3/Uploaded/"
#schedule = watch_directory_6,10,10,"load_start=/media/BitTorrent/Tracker3/Torrents/Snatched/*.torrent,d.set_custom1=/media/BitTorrent/Tracker3/Snatched/"

# On completion, move the torrent to the directory from custom1.
on_finished = move_complete,"d.set_directory=$d.get_custom1= ;execute=mv,-u,$d.get_base_path=,$d.get_custom1="

Last edited by spkag (2010-04-03 12:06:51)