Bashpodder and Bittorrent
I've recently caught the podcasting bug, and seeing as I listen to at least two podcasts a day I've been looking at automating the process of downloading them. I've got a computer running Gentoo Linux that's on 24/7, and right now I'm using Bashpodder, which is run by cron every hour. It works flawlessly.
However, Slashdot Review has the option of a bittorrent download, and they've actually been begging regular listeners to use this rather than the direct download feed. Wanting to do my part, I've tried to run the Bashpodder bittorrent mod, but I'm not entirely sure how best to run it.
As far as I can see, when the script is run, it checks for new downloads in the RSS feed. If it finds something, it starts the torrent, and then continues to run indefinately so that I can serve the torrents to other users. What I'm confused about is what happens if it doesn't find any new torrents; will it start new torrents for existing files that I'm already serving? Does 'indefinite' really mean indefinite, or does it time out after a few hours/days? If I run it as a cron job, am I going to find myself with tens of processes running at the same time?
Crossposted to
linux, ipod, podcast. Apologies if you read this three times.
However, Slashdot Review has the option of a bittorrent download, and they've actually been begging regular listeners to use this rather than the direct download feed. Wanting to do my part, I've tried to run the Bashpodder bittorrent mod, but I'm not entirely sure how best to run it.
As far as I can see, when the script is run, it checks for new downloads in the RSS feed. If it finds something, it starts the torrent, and then continues to run indefinately so that I can serve the torrents to other users. What I'm confused about is what happens if it doesn't find any new torrents; will it start new torrents for existing files that I'm already serving? Does 'indefinite' really mean indefinite, or does it time out after a few hours/days? If I run it as a cron job, am I going to find myself with tens of processes running at the same time?
Crossposted to
linux, ipod, podcast. Apologies if you read this three times. 