I'm wanting to d/l and make a couple of Knoppix 6.2 Live DVDs to give friends still
using XP.
I haven't used Bittorrent in Linux and I'm running into a couple of newbie snags. The first involves setting up bittorrent tracker default config so's I don't create problems.
I've copied the default text as it now exist at: /etc/default/bittorrent
I can change START_BTTRACK=0 to 1 OK. But I'm kinda vague on what I'm supposed to do with the # ALLOWED_DIR. Do I just uncomment it? Or are there other directories to consider? E.g., /usr/bin/ftp, /usr/X11R6/bin/ftp, /usr/bin/X11/ftp... or what?
Apropos the rest of the "comments", they are gibberish to me. If I need to make any changes to them, I'll need some hand holding.
Code:
# Default configuration for bittorrent tracker, bttrack
# If you want the bittorrent tracker to run, switch this to 1.
# If you change this, you will probably want to change
# ALLOWED_DIR as well, or anyone will be able to track anything
# just by pointing the .torrent at your server.
START_BTTRACK=0
# Set any bttrack option --foo by defining the variable FOO to the argument
# you'd like to pass with the --foo option. See `man bttrack` for a detailed
# discussion of the options.
# Persistent state file
DFILE=/var/lib/bittorrent/bttrack.state
# Port defaults to 80, which tends to be inconvenient
PORT=6969
# Only allow downloads for .torrent files in this directory
#ALLOWED_DIR=/srv/ftp
# The following options do not correspond to bttrack options; they influence how
# bttrack's init script starts the daemon.
# Run under this uid. Must have access to all files and directories involved,
# naturally, but should otherwise have minimal privileges to minimize any
# security risk.
#DAEMONUSER=bittorrent
# chroot to this directory before starting the daemon. This can also help keep
# the daemon secure, but may interact with all sorts of file locations in
# unexpected ways.
#DAEMONCHROOT=/var/local/lib/bttrack-sandbox
# Move to this directory before starting the daemon. This may be useful in
# conjunction with DAEMONCHROOT.
#DAEMONCHDIR=/var/local/lib/bttrack-sandbox
# Run the daemon at this "nice" priority. Setting a positive value here will
# dissuade the system from giving all its CPU time to bttrack requests from the
# network.
DAEMONNICE=5
# Append log output from daemon to this file. Make sure this log is rotated
# from time to time so it doesn't fill up your disk. The daemon will of course
# need write access to the log file.
DAEMONLOGFILE=/var/log/bittorrent/bttrack.log
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