I've been poking around and haven't run across the info I'm looking for.

I'm looking for a Torrent Client that I can run on my file server. This is so I can wget a torrent file remotely and have the client run like a daemon so I don't have to be logged-in for the entire download.

Is it possible to get any of the torrent clients to do this?

TIA.

rtorrent

Hi,

+1 for rtorrent. Run it inside screen or tmux.

Evo2.

Thanks for the point in the right direction!

It looks like I'll be using rutorrent as a web interface rather than using a terminal.

If you want to use a web interface, I use Transmission that way on my fileserver, so you probably want to have a look at that, too.

Whoah - this is major. The RUTORRENT web interface has no authentication security? Yikes.

Does Transmission have any security at all?

Yes.

I would go with Transmission for this... It has a beautiful web-interface (with authentication), cli .. can be remotely controlled by cli, and gui (gtk or qt)... Supports directory-watching .. Mostly every thing you need

I use transmission as well. The only criticism I have of it is that it is resource hungry - I have to nice it to a low priority.

Ok, I finally got Transmission up and running. It works great for what I need - I can dump a torrent on a network share on my file server and it handles the rest.

I would like to note for future reference, all of the documentation and tutorials I came across for setting up transmission talked about editing the "settings.json" file for your configuration that resides in your user directory. I found that editing this file did nothing. The actual location for this file was in "/var/lib/transmission/settings.json". I used this repository to get Transmission for CentOS: geekery.altervista.org/dokuwiki/doku.php.

Also, you are to make changes to the configuration only when the service is off.