How to create torrent files?

[Andreas Rudisch]

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:25:51 +0100
Erik Norgaard <norgaard at locolomo.org> wrote:

> Hi:
>
> Which tools are available for creating torrent files? I am looking for a
> commandline tool or a perl module that would permit creating a torrent
> file like this
>
>     $ maketorrent -t <tracker> -o <file>.torrent path
>
> But it seems only py-torrent provides a tool and it's GUI based.
>
> Thanks, Erik

Hi Erik,

one tool you could use is ctorrent.

/usr/ports/net-p2p/ctorrent/
ctorrent -t -u tracker_url -s torrent_name source

Andreas

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