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.

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