NAME

       bttrack - tracker for bittorrent

SYNOPSIS

       bttrack  [ option ... ]

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 program that serves as a "tracker"  for  bittorrent  clients.   This  program
       keeps  track  of  the  completion  of  each client, and communicates that information when
       requested to other clients.

OPTIONS

       These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options  starting  with
       two dashes (`-').  A summary of options is included below.

       --port portnum
              listen on port portnum (default 80)

       --dfile filename
              store recent downloader info in filename

       --bind ip
              bind to ip instead of the default

       --socket_timeout secs
              timeout for closing connections (default 15)

       --save_dfile_interval secs
              seconds between saving dfile (default 300)

       --timeout_downloaders_interval secs
              seconds between expiring downloaders (default 2700)

       --reannounce_interval secs
              seconds downloaders should wait between reannouncements (default 1800)

       --response_size num
              number of peers to send in an info message (default 50)

       --timeout_check_interval secs
              time to wait between checking if any connections have timed out (default 5)

       --nat_check [ 1 | 0 ]
              whether to check back and ban downloaders behind NAT (default 1)

       --min_time_between_log_flushes secs
              minimum time it must have been since the last flush to do another one (default 3.0)

       --allowed_dir path
              only allow downloads for .torrents in this directory (default '')

       --parse_allowed_interval mins
              minutes between reloading of allowed_dir (default 15)

       --show_names [ 1 | 0 ]
              whether to display names from allowed dir (default 1)

SEE ALSO

       bittorrent-downloader(1), btmakemetafile(1).

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was  written  by  Michael Janssen <jamuraa@debian.org>, for the Debian
       GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

                                           Jan 18 2003                                 BTTRACK(1)