Even though my Ubuntu Lucid Lynx media server runs pretty solidly, I like to monitor it periodically using SSH and command line tools. Some of my favorites are w, htop, ps, bwm-ng, and nmap. After rebuilding my server, I decided to install some lightweight system monitoring tools that exposed themselves via a web interface, so [...]
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Using the configuration file shown in my Transmission-Daemon setup post, Transmission will download files into the “downloading” folder until the download hits 100%. At that point, the downloaded files will be moved to the “seeding” folder. The torrent will remain active, seeding to other users, until it hits the seeding ratio, or until you pause [...]
This is definitely a newb-level topic, but I think it is important to understand how to redirect output from your command-line processes. This becomes important because regularly-schedule processes run via cron will email you whatever the output is. This is completely confusing when you first encounter it, and the complete solution isn’t exactly obvious.
StdOut
When you [...]
Transmission-daemon does not automatically remove completed torrents. I created a script to do so, and I run it via a cron job (under my own user ID) on my Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Server.
This script uses command line utility transmission-remote (which is installed when you install the transmission-daemon package) to check on the progress of [...]
TVNamer is a Python application that will automatically renames TV episode files to a clean, consistent, and useful format. If you rip your DVDs, or download torrents (for shame!) on your server, you might find the “tvnamer” Python script very useful. I am running this on my Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx server right now, and [...]
