pmark23

Anyone recently looked into BitTorrent trackers? A client is thinking about using BitTorrent to distribute large videos to a (potentially large) number of clients (all legal of course). I spent the afternoon looking at all the available packages, but it's not clear which ones are the best maintained, well-written, and with the most relevant features. The client is interested in statistics, and keeping the torrent seeded at all times (and not seeding if not necessary to save bandwidth -- which is the whole reason for doing this). I already told them that they would likely need to have their own server, so that's not a problem -- but it would be nice to get a non-public test site running first. I've looked at PeerTracker, OpenTracket, mod bt, and BNBT. Anything missing? Anything recommended over anything else? Anything to stay away from?

Over the past few weeks I've had a massive increase that both Spam Assassin and Thunderbird can't deal with. I dropped Spam Assassin down to 4 with little effect. Looking at the headers of the new spam, they're coming through at close to 1 or 2 -- the same that regular emails get. The frustrating thing is that the message bodies for each are mostly identical -- difficult to automate spam removal. I was soooo used to getting ZERO spam. Argh!

A client has a large number of email addresses, and would like to be able to add or remove addresses themselves. I thought I saw a script that used PHP to hide the password, and allow them to login with a hardwired password directly to the email configuration screen in CPanel. If there was such a script, I can't find it now. They can't have access to anything beyond the email section. Anyone doing anything like this? Does a script already exist? Is there another solution (something in CPanel?) Mark

Thanks, that's what I assumed, but was getting some weird errors when trying to set an environment variable. Got it sorted out now (I think). Cheers, Mark

I don't think you understand the question. Cron already works -- it runs a clean-up script for our Drupal-based site. What shell does Cron default to? I want to make the script more efficient, and to do that I need to know if it's using sh, ksh, bash, or whatever. Cheers, Mark

I have a clean-up script which is run by CRON every so often. I would like to add some more features, but this requires a BASH shell. Which shell is used now, and how can a BASH shell be used instead (if this is possible)? Thanks, Mark