didnt someone just say its not possible? lol
On 29/04/2008, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 14:03 +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote: > > or ill just say its part of my going green aim!!! lol > > An admirable goal. Certainly a little nslu2 and a usb drive will take > much less power than a multi-core CPU machine with a monster video card, > driving a flat panel. > > What I do is have an old PC I was given for nothing which draws about > 30W. It's a Dell Optiplex G1, which has the following specification:- > > $ grep MHz /proc/cpuinfo # 400MHz CPU > cpu MHz : 398.790 > > $ grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo # 192MiB RAM > MemTotal: 190740 kB > > $ df | head -n 2 > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on # 6GB Disk > /dev/sda1 5.7G 4.3G 1.1G 81% / > > Which is running Ubuntu Hardy Server (upgraded from Gutsy, previously > upgraded from Feisty). I put it on my network and installed the > necessary packages to enable me to logon to it:- > > (all the commands below are run on the server) > > $ sudo apt-get install ssh > > And then installed the rtorrent package to enable me to download > torrents:- > > $ sudo apt-get install rtorrent > > Next we install the program "screen" which allows things to carry on > running when you're disconnected:- > > $ sudo apt-get install screen > > Then on my desktop PC I go and find a torrent I want to download, ah, > here is one:- > > http://releases.ubuntu.com/hardy/ubuntu-8.04-alternate-i386.iso.torrent > > I then open a terminal on my desktop and ssh from my desktop to the > server:- > > $ ssh 192.168.129.5 > > (Note: 192.168.129.5 is the IP address my server has, yours may be > different of course depending upon how you configured your network) > > I then get the torrent to the server machine:- > > $ wget > http://releases.ubuntu.com/hardy/ubuntu-8.04-alternate-i386.iso.torrent > > Which gives output that looks like this:- > > http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org/872 > > Then run rtorrent:- > > $ screen -S hardytorrent rtorrent ubuntu-8.04-alternate-i386.iso.torrent > > This then gives a screen which looks like this:- > > http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org/873 > > (which shows that it's _just_ started downloading). > > A few minutes have now passed since I typed that and thanks to the > lovely people at Ubuntu, and the equally lovely people at Virgin Media > (providing me with a 20Mb/s connection) I get something like this:- > > http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org/874 > > Look at him go! 2 MegaBytes a second. > > Ok, I need to go for a cup of tea, and maybe shutdown my desktop for > some contrived reason, so I press the following keys in the rtorrent > session:- > > CTRL+A then D > > The word "[detached]" appears, which shows that I am no longer attached > to the screen session. I can now logout of the server with:- > > CTRL+D > > Now I could shutdown my desktop, go to bed and dream of torrents. > > Time passes... > > WAKEY WAKEY! Rise and Shine! It's morning, which must mean it's time to > check the torrents! > > So, we boot up the desktop and then ssh to the server:- > > $ ssh 192.168.129.5 > > Now, lets see if that screen session (containing rtorrent) is still > running by just typing this:- > > $ screen -ls > There is a screen on: > 21100.hardytorrent (Detached) > 1 Socket in /var/run/screen/S-alan. > > So that means that my rtorrent is probably still running but nobody is > attached, watching it. Lets re-attach to screen to see if it's finished > torrenting the ISO image:- > > $ screen -r hardytorrent > > Ooh, it's finished:- > > http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org/876 > > (Note: I actually stopped rtorrent by accident and restarted it, but it > carried on regardless) > > When finished, if I want to quit rtorrent (and hence screen) I press:- > > CTRL+q > > I then see:- > > [screen is terminating] > > Job done. > > I can now copy the files over from the server to my desktop using the > Ubuntu/Gnome places menu to create a connection to my server. > > My manky old PC actually also has a USB drive attached, so I could > rtorrent directly to it rather than store on the small internal hard > disk, but as you can see, my usb disk is a bit full too :) > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sdb1 699G 690G 9.3G 99% /media/750GDisk > > :) > > Hope that's helpful. > > Cheers, > Al. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > > >
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