Unofficial FC4.2 released

[Paul Howarth]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 14 November 2005 12:06, Kam Leo wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
>>I just noticed the announcement on the list. I tried to download the
>>files but it looks like the torrent is dead. There are 8 seeds and 1
>>peer, none of which to connect.
> 
> 
> I should be there, running the trackerless version though, with this
> script:
> ----------
> #!/bin/bash
> /usr/bin/bittorrent-console FC4.2-Unofficial-i386.torrent &
> ----------

Just as a FYI, the bittorrent packages in Fedora Extras include 
initscripts for running trackers and seeders as services running in the 
background.

For example, to run a seeder for FC4.2-Unofficial-i386.torrent, you 
would just dump the FC4.2-Unofficial-i386.torrent file (and, if you've 
already downloaded the data, the FC4.2-Unofficial-i386 directory and its 
contents) into the bittorrent data area (/var/spool/bittorrent for FC3, 
/srv/bittorrent/data for FC4 and later) and run (as root):

# service btseed start

Paul.