Thread: rutorrent create torrent & cross-seed problem

Hi guys

I've got an Ubuntu seedbox up and running with no problems leeching & seeding. But when I want to cross-seed to other trackers and create torrents i face problems:



1) cross-seed
After uploading the .torrent file to the server there is "torrent successfully passed to rtorrent" in logger but the new torrent would NOT appear and hash check. Tried the same .torrent file few times and also with different trackers .torrent file and all giving the same results. It's as if the new torrent disappeared into thin air.....

2) create torrent
After choosing the whole directory as source to torrent, it will manage to create a .torrent file and i can download it to my home pc. But, after add the torrent to the server it would be stuck at 90++%, the torrent is about 10 times smaller (8gb became 800mb) and the status is downloading instead of checking???? I tried to change to bigger piece size and create torrent of other directory but all give the same result....


Could this be caused by missing plugin??? This is what I have at the moment:
getdir
autotools
cpuload
cookies
create
data
datadir
diskspace
edit
erasedata
retrackers
rss
unpack
tracklabels
ratio
seedingtime
geoip

thanks in advance for your help

Hey buddy,

First, for your cross seed issue. Try adding the .torrent to your "watch" dir through FTP to see if it shows up then. Then we will take this issue from there regardless if it works or not.

Second issue, its not a missing plugin, but u may want to try to use mktorrent with the create torrent option in rutorrent instead. U would need to compile mktorrent on your server and then edit the config file to have rutorrent use mktorrent instead of the default option. Using mktorrent or another similar program is much better then using the default create option.

Also how long is it stuck at 90% for?

Thanks for the help buddy

Originally Posted by MikeD

First, for your cross seed issue. Try adding the .torrent to your "watch" dir through FTP to see if it shows up then. Then we will take this issue from there regardless if it works or not.

This must be a cross seed torrent not any torrent right??



Ok I did some googling and I'll give it a shot on how to install mktorrent through ssh. Please correct anything below if I'm wrong...

ssh login superuser
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mktorrent/mktorrent-1.0.tar.gz
tar -xvzf mktorrent-1.0.tar.gz
rm *.tar.gz
cd ../mktorrent-1.0
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo nano conf.php -> will this open the rutorrent create conf.php?

edit the lines in the config file to:
$useExternal = 'mktorrent';
$pathToCreatetorrent = '/usr/local/bin/mktorrent';

Again, thanks so much

update:
1) cross seeding is now working
update & upgrade did the trick....


2) mktorrent is installed but still problem creating torrent
I installed mktorrent using the following steps in ssh:

wget Download mktorrent from SourceForge.net
tar -xvzf mktorrent-1.0.tar.gz
rm *.tar.gz
cd mktorrent-1.0
make
sudo make install
cd /var/www
cd rutorrent/plugins
cd create
nano conf.php
edit:
$ useExternal = 'mktorrent';
$ pathToCreateTorrent = 'usr/local/bin/mktorrent';

but now, I'm still getting errors when creating torrents....

Error stat'ing './(torrent name)': Value too large for defined data type
i'm having this same error with every attempt to create torrent.....
kinda confused now.....

Hey d4nny, sorry getting back to u so late. I been on a little vacation and am just getting back. However, glad to see u got the cross seed issue fixed.

Anyway, u compiled mktorrent correctly, but u didnt enable 'Large File' support or any other options. Uninstall mktorrent and then re-compile with the following commands as either root or sudo :

# cd mktorrent*
# make USE_PTHREADS=1 USE_OPENSSL=1 USE_LARGE_FILES=1
# make install

That should fix the create torrent issue. If u still run into problems, just post back here and ill help u. Thanks