torrent recommendation

[Gary Aitken]

On 09/13/14 11:32, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 11:27:09 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote:
>> I've never dealt with a torrent download but now need to
>> get something that is
>> only available in that form.
>>
>> Looking for recommendations of a simple way to go in terms
>> of a ports client. 
> 
> I've been using ctorrent for that purpose. It's quick to
> install and easy to use:
> 
> 	% ctorrent <torrent-file>
> 
> See "ctorrent -h" for options, but basically, the default
> settings are fine.

Thanks.
Having installed that and attempted to download, I see the following
when doing "ctorrent -v wikipedia-schools-3.0.1.tar.gz.torrent:

META INFO
Announce: udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80/announce
Alternates:
 1. udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80/announce
 2. udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969/announce
 3. http://academic-p2p.appspot.com/announce
 4. http://academic-p2p.carlosdelfino.eti.br/announce
Created On: Fri Oct  4 08:19:41 2013
Piece length: 4194304
Comment: Officially sanctioned download of http://schools-wikipedia.org/
Created with: qBittorrent v3.0.11
FILES INFO
<1> wikipedia-schools-3.0.1.tar.gz [5376284089]
Total: 5127 MB
Found bit field file; verifying previous state.
Listening on 0.0.0.0:2706
Press 'h' or '?' for help (display/control client options).
Checking completed.
- 0/0/1 [0/1282/0] 0MB,0MB | 0,0K/s | 0,0K E:0,0 Connecting
... a bunch of the above line
1410637552 Check: 228 skipped
1410637552 Check: 229 skipped
1410637552 Check: 230 skipped
1410637552 Check: 231 skipped
...
1410637552 Check: 1280 skipped
1410637552 Check: 1281 skipped

1410637552 Cache: 0K/16M  Hits: 0  Miss: 0  0%  Pre: 0/0
... repeats with ...553-560
1410637561 Cache: 0K/16M  Hits: 0  Miss: 0  0%  Pre: 0/0
1410637562 DL need: 0K  UL need: 0K  Cache: 16K  Used: 0K

What are all the check: skipped things?
What are the Cache lines?

ctorrent -h 
shows an example of
  ctorrent -s new_filename -e 12 -C 32 -p 6881 example.torrent
What's the 6881?
The -p option doesn't take an argument according to the help text,
but it appears to be the port number; but there's no cmd line summary
to indicate what the syntax is.

How do I tell if it's actually succeeding, 
since the output file is pre-allocated?

It says "listening on 0.0.0.0:2706"
What's with the 0.0.0.0 IP,
and if I have my firewall setup with 6881-6999 open  with "setup keep-state"
enabled, will that open up 2706 appropriately?

If I try the ctorrent site recommended in ctorrent -h, I get:
  News
  Can't connect to mysql4-c as c91688ro
  MySQL Error: Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 113
  This script cannot continue, terminating.

I installed ctcs and it shows nothing happening...
In order to run ctcs, I had to 
  perl -Tw /usr/local/bin/ctcs
Is that normal?
Or is the install deficient in setting the privileges on /usr/local/bin/ctcs? 

Thanks,

Gary