NAME
bttrack — bittorrent tracker
SYNOPSIS
bttrack [options ...] --dfile file
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the bttrack command.
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the
original program does not have a manual page.
bttrack is a "tracker" for bittorrent clients. This program keeps track
of the completion of each client, and communicates that information
when requested to other clients.
There is one required option, --dfile, which specifies what file to
store the recent downloader information.
OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
options starting with two dashes (‘--’). A summary of options is
included below.
--dfile file
the file to store the recent downloader information
(required)
--port port
the port to listen on (defaults to 80)
--bind ip|hostname[,ip|hostname ...]
a comma-separated list of ips and hostnames to bind to
locally (defaults to ’’)
--ipv6_enabled 0|1
whether to allow the tracker to connect to peers via IPv6
(defaults to 0)
--ipv6_binds_v4 0|1
whether an IPv6 server socket will also field IPv4
connections (defaults to 0)
--socket_timeout seconds
then number of seconds to use as a timeout for closing
connections (defaults to 15)
--save_dfile_interval seconds
the number of seconds between saving the dfile (defaults to
300)
--timeout_downloaders_interval seconds
the number of seconds between expiring downloaders (defaults
to 2700)
--reannounce_interval seconds
the number of seconds downloaders should wait between
reannouncements (defaults to 1800)
--response_size num
the num of peers to send in an info message (defaults to 50)
--timeout_check_interval seconds
the number of seconds to wait between checking if any
connections have timed out (defaults to 5)
--nat_check num
check num times if a downloader is behind a NAT (0 = don’t
check) (defaults to 3)
--log_nat_checks 0|1
whether to add entries to the log for nat-check results
(defaults to 0)
--min_time_between_log_flushes seconds
the minimum number of seconds it must have been since the
last flush to do another one (defaults to 3.0)
--min_time_between_cache_refreshes seconds
the minimum number of seconds before a cache is considered
stale and is flushed (defaults to 600.0)
--allowed_dir directory
only allow downloads for torrents in this directory (defaults
to ’’)
--allowed_list file
only allow downloads for hashes in this file (hex format, one
per line), cannot be used with allowed_dir (defaults to ’’)
--allowed_controls 0|1
whether to allow special keys in torrents in the allowed_dir
to affect tracker access (defaults to 0)
--multitracker_enabled 0|1
whether to enable multitracker operation (defaults to 0)
--multitracker_allowed autodetect|none|all
whether to allow incoming tracker announces (can be none,
autodetect or all) (defaults to ’autodetect’)
--multitracker_reannounce_interval seconds
number of seconds between outgoing tracker announces
(defaults to 120)
--multitracker_maxpeers num
the num of peers to get in a tracker announce (defaults to
20)
--aggregate_forward url[,password]
if set, forwards all non-multitracker to this url with this
optional password (defaults to ’’)
--aggregator 0|1|password
whether to act as a data aggregator rather than a tracker. If
enabled, may be 1, or password; if password is set, then an
incoming password is required for access (defaults to ’0’)
--hupmonitor 0|1
whether to reopen the log file upon receipt of HUP signal
(defaults to 0)
--http_timeout seconds
number of seconds to wait before assuming that an http
connection has timed out (defaults to 60)
--parse_dir_interval seconds
number of seconds between reloading of allowed_dir (defaults
to 60)
--show_infopage 0|1
whether to display an info page when the tracker’s root dir
is loaded (defaults to 1)
--infopage_redirect URL
redirect the info page to this URL (defaults to ’’)
--show_names 0|1
whether to display names from allowed dir (defaults to 1)
--favicon filename
the filename containing x-icon data to return when browser
requests favicon.ico (defaults to ’’)
--allowed_ips file
only allow connections from IPs specified in the given file,
which contains subnet data in the format: aa.bb.cc.dd/len
(defaults to ’’)
--banned_ips file
don’t allow connections from IPs specified in the given file,
which contains IP range data in the format: xxx:xxx:ip1-ip2
(defaults to ’’)
--only_local_override_ip 0|1|2
ignore the ip GET parameter from machines which aren’t on
local network IPs (0 = never, 1 = always, 2 = ignore if NAT
checking is not enabled) (defaults to 2)
--logfile file
write tracker logs to this file, use ’-’ for stdout (defaults
to ’-’)
--allow_get 0|1
use with allowed_dir; adds a /file?hash=hash URL that allows
users to download the torrent file (defaults to 0)
--keep_dead 0|1
keep dead torrents after they expire (so they still show up
on your /scrape and web page) (defaults to 0)
--scrape_allowed full|specific|none
scrape access allowed (can be none, specific or full)
(defaults to full)
--dedicated_seed_id code
the code to require from clients to indicate that they are
dedicated seeders. This allows the tracker to monitor
dedicated seed(s) and flag torrents as seeded. (defaults to
’’)
SEE ALSO
bittorrent-downloader(1),
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Cameron Dale <camrdale@gmail.com>
(based on the original man pages written by Micah Anderson
<micah@debian.org>) for the Debian system (but may be used by others).
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any
later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
bttrack.bittornado(1)