Bittorrent - how to use on Linux?

[Paul Howarth]

Andrea Montenegro wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone has experience the same problem with 
> bittorrent and FC3: I installed the version 3.4.2-1-1 from a rpm I found 
> on Internet; the program seems to work fine using the command line 
> "/usr/bin/btdownloadcurses --max_upload_rate 32 <torrent file>", except 
> for the fact that after a few hours my operating system stop responding 
> and I'm forced to shut down the machine using the power button. I tried 
> to login through ssh when the computer hang, but even that didn't work.
> 
> The operating system is very stable until I run bittorrent, and it runs 
> 24 hours a day without a glitch. Is there a log file that can help to 
> better understand what causes the problem?

This isn't something I've noticed but perhaps you could give the new 
beta version (3.9.1) a try and see if that's any better?

I have RPMs for it at:
http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/bittorrent/BETA/

Paul.