Re: Bit Torrent and RedHat 9

From: Ed (epugh1_at_nothereatallnow.com)
Date: 11/04/03 

Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 22:12:43 GMT

Peter wrote:
> noselasd@frisurf.no (Nils O. Selåsdal) wrote in message news:<slrnbqbu7m.tqk.noselasd@utelsystems.dyndns.org>...
>
>>In article <df505181.0311021732.4fd1f88a@posting.google.com>, Peter wrote:
>>
>>>Hi. I have been trying hard to get Bit Torrent working in Red Hat 9,
>>>but have been unsuccessful in this area.
>>>
>>>It is possible that I have downloaded an uncompatible version so if
>>>someone has it woking in RH9, could you send me the link to where you
>>>got it.
>>>
>>>I donloaded one off bittorrent's site ... ( it was an rpm ). It said
>>>that it
>>>successfully installed .... but I dont see the port listening when I
>>>do a
>>>netstat -an.
>>>
>>>Also, how do you start a download. It was my understanding that you
>>>download a
>>>link from a site ( such as suprnova.org) and then double click it. (
>>>I tried
>>>just running it from a terminal and it did not seem to do anything.
>>>Actually
>>>it said permission denined as it was not an executable. so I made it
>>>executable, and then it did nothing. I took the execute permissions
>>>back
>>>off). THen I tried making an icon in gnome to it, and double
>>>clicking it. I
>>>got the following error
>>>
>>
>>You are more or less supposed to read the documentation.
>>Now, here's what you should try;
>>Download a torrent file , save it in e.g. /tmp/ ,lets say it's called
>>test.torrent
>>Open a terminal(command line window), and type ;
>>btdownloadcurses.py /tmp/test.torrent
>
>
>
> Thanks for the reply. I guess I had it installed fine. I just was
> not running them right. ( nneded to use the btdownloadcurses.py
> command )
>
> Is there a way to cap the upload speed .... ?
> IS there a way to turn bit torrent off once you are done ... ( so that
> people are not constanly taking my upload bandwidth 24 hours a day ...
> )
>
> Thank you again for your reply
 From a terminal session enter btdownloadcurses.py. This will give you
a list of commands and <args> to use.

Peter wrote:
> noselasd@frisurf.no (Nils O. Selåsdal) wrote in message news:<slrnbqbu7m.tqk.noselasd@utelsystems.dyndns.org>...
>
>>In article <df505181.0311021732.4fd1f88a@posting.google.com>, Peter wrote:
>>
>>>Hi. I have been trying hard to get Bit Torrent working in Red Hat 9,
>>>but have been unsuccessful in this area.
>>>
>>>It is possible that I have downloaded an uncompatible version so if
>>>someone has it woking in RH9, could you send me the link to where you
>>>got it.
>>>
>>>I donloaded one off bittorrent's site ... ( it was an rpm ). It said
>>>that it
>>>successfully installed .... but I dont see the port listening when I
>>>do a
>>>netstat -an.
>>>
>>>Also, how do you start a download. It was my understanding that you
>>>download a
>>>link from a site ( such as suprnova.org) and then double click it. (
>>>I tried
>>>just running it from a terminal and it did not seem to do anything.
>>>Actually
>>>it said permission denined as it was not an executable. so I made it
>>>executable, and then it did nothing. I took the execute permissions
>>>back
>>>off). THen I tried making an icon in gnome to it, and double
>>>clicking it. I
>>>got the following error
>>>
>>
>>You are more or less supposed to read the documentation.
>>Now, here's what you should try;
>>Download a torrent file , save it in e.g. /tmp/ ,lets say it's called
>>test.torrent
>>Open a terminal(command line window), and type ;
>>btdownloadcurses.py /tmp/test.torrent
>
>
>
> Thanks for the reply. I guess I had it installed fine. I just was
> not running them right. ( nneded to use the btdownloadcurses.py
> command )
>
> Is there a way to cap the upload speed .... ?
> IS there a way to turn bit torrent off once you are done ... ( so that
> people are not constanly taking my upload bandwidth 24 hours a day ...
> )
>
> Thank you again for your reply

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