Thread: rtorrent/rutorrent help - Seed for X number of hours

I've been looking for a good way to just seed for X number of hours. for instance I want to normally seed for 48 hours, but at sites like comicbt 5-7 days (120 hours). Is there a way to set that up and ignore whatever ratio you are at?



Everything I've tried has looked at ratio, or amount uploaded and decided that it can stop the torrent even though it hasn't been the correct # of hours.

Thanks in advance.

Solved to my satisfaction - http://forums.rutorrent.org/index.php?topic=663.0

rtcontrol alias=comicbt seedtime=+120h --stop # or --cull
rtcontrol 'alias=!comicbt' seedtime=+48h --stop # or --cull

RtControlExamples - pyroscope - Real-world use-cases for rtcontrol. - Python Torrent Tools - Google Project Hosting

Hmmm...it's having a hard time installing on CentOS 5.6.

Trying it from source now.

Originally Posted by Water666

I've been looking for a good way to just seed for X number of hours. for instance I want to normally seed for 48 hours, but at sites like comicbt 5-7 days (120 hours). Is there a way to set that up and ignore whatever ratio you are at?

There is always a way to do something. AFAIK, fixed time seeding is not a native rtorrent feature. Do a Google search to find out if someone has written a script to do what you want.

I'm sure that there must be more elegant approaches, but if nothing else you could run a script from rtorrent.rc .. where cron increments a counter every x hours and stops the torrent after the desired seeding time has elapsed.

err, nvmd.. I see that you already have replies..


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Originally Posted by copper

There is always a way to do something. AFAIK, fixed time seeding is not a native rtorrent feature. Do a Google search to find out if someone has written a script to do what you want.

That's exactly why I was asking here. :) Everyone in the T-I community is always willing to help. Now that I have some ideas, I'm changing the google searches I'm doing.

---------- Post added at 04:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:53 PM ----------

Even from source Pyroscope continues to fail to install. I've included the errors in case you want to look at them. In the meantime I will continue to look for another way to do this.

Code:

Adding Paver 1.0.4 to easy-install.pth file
Installing paver script to /root/lib/pyroscope/bin

Installed /root/lib/pyroscope/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Paver-1.0.4-py2.4.egg
Processing dependencies for paver>=1.0.1
Finished processing dependencies for paver>=1.0.1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/root/lib/pyroscope/bin/paver", line 7, in ?
    sys.exit(
  File "/root/lib/pyroscope/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Paver-1.0.4-py2.4.egg/paver/tasks.py", line 643, in main
    _launch_pavement(args)
  File "/root/lib/pyroscope/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Paver-1.0.4-py2.4.egg/paver/tasks.py", line 623, in _launch_pavement
    execfile(environment.pavement_file, mod.__dict__)
  File "pavement.py", line 150
    with pushd(venv) as basedir:
             ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/root/lib/pyroscope/bin/paver", line 7, in ?
    sys.exit(
  File "/root/lib/pyroscope/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Paver-1.0.4-py2.4.egg/paver/tasks.py", line 643, in main
    _launch_pavement(args)
  File "/root/lib/pyroscope/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Paver-1.0.4-py2.4.egg/paver/tasks.py", line 623, in _launch_pavement
    execfile(environment.pavement_file, mod.__dict__)
  File "pavement.py", line 24
    from __future__ import with_statement
SyntaxError: future feature with_statement is not defined
ln: `./bin': cannot overwrite directory

I found a way to do it based on the Ratio Groups plugin that's already in rutorrent. Thanks for the help though.

http://forums.rutorrent.org/index.php?topic=663.0

Log in to putty and type:

Code:

mkdir -p ~/bin ~/lib/pyroscope
cd ~/lib/pyroscope
venv='https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/raw/master/virtualenv.py'
python -c "import urllib2; open('venv.py','w').write(urllib2.urlopen('$venv').read())"
deactivate 2>/dev/null
python venv.py --no-site-packages $(pwd)

after that do

Code:

~/lib/pyroscope/bin/easy_install pyrocore
ln -nfs $(grep -l 'entry_point.*pyrocore==' ~/lib/pyroscope/bin/*) ~/bin/

If you get any errors while doing the last 2 commands, simply ignore them. Close any putty sessions and relog again. Type again the last 2 commands. They should be working fine now. To confirm that everything is ok, type rtcontrol in putty and it will show you the options available.

That's how i did it and it worked for me.

EDIT: Rtcontrol is way more powerful than the rutorrent plugins. It's worthy to spend some time getting it to work and you won't regret it :)

I agree, there is a lot more you can do with rtcontrol. I'll be testing that out later this weekend, and let you know how it goes.

You run py 2.4, while every install page clearly states >= 2.5 as a requirement.

And BTW, it's not a good idea to run a virtualenv install as root.

Thanks pyroscope, it was python 2.4.3 which I didn't even check, I just installed from the repositories.

The reason I'm installing it as root in that post, is it's on my test machine. I literally just installed the OS, then rtorrent, and then rtcontrol. Once I have it working, I'll install it on my torrent machine, and delete the test machine.

I'll get python >=2.5 installed later today and try it again.