I know there are a ton of bittorrent clients out there which is why I figured I'd ask, Google wasn't helpful but it's tough finding good keywords for this

I have a ton of Arch Linux-related files that I'd like to share and I've just come across an old box that I was hoping to run as a headless seed-server type of thing. I'll be SSH'ing in to add/remove .torrent files but I was wondering if there was any BT apps out there that worked in a client-server layout? So I could run the server on the headless box and have a client on my desktop that could administer it over the LAN? This line of thinking is inspired by MPD but it seems to be a pretty decent idea.

If nothing already exists I might take a stab at writing one in Python but mmmm.. something already done would be nice. Any suggestions or ideas for other ways I could tackle this would be appreciated

errrr, yes and no....

no, there are none that run in a client/server fashion (i spent weeks looking for the same thing). however, as always with linux, a little jiggery-pokery might make it work.

check out rtorrent on http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ its a bittorrent client made to be run on headless boxes and the like, via screen, and it is pretty good. not exactly client/server as you described, but with a little tinkering with screen, it could serve your purposes. its what i use to do basicly the same thing as your suggesting.

if that doesnt suit your needs, and your going to write your own, they have libtorrent on that site too (rtorrent depends on it) that might be usefull to use in your code.

Hey rtorrent looks good! I did look at it briefly but from the CLI, the rtorrent -h output was way messy, something stupid in my settings I guess but I just had another look in urxvt and its tidy here (something to look at fixing I guess ) and it looks like almost exactly what I'm after!

Thanks for the suggestion

happy to help. not sure why its messy, i just use screen and launch rtorrent in there. seems to work just fine. although, i havent tinkered with the settings of screen or rtorrent.