(Answer) (Category) Brian's BitTorrent FAQ and Guide : (Category) Advanced Topics : (Answer) What are the command line parameters of the BitTorrent Python tracker?

The available arguments for the Python tracker (bttrack.py) are:

--port <arg>
port to listen on. (defaults to 80)
--dfile <arg>
file to store recent downloader info in (this is a REQUIRED parameter)
--bind <arg>
ip to bind to locally (defaults to '')
--socket_timeout <arg>
timeout for closing connections (defaults to 15)
--save_dfile_interval <arg>
seconds between saving dfile (defaults to 300)
--timeout_downloaders_interval <arg>
seconds between expiring downloaders (defaults to 2700)
--reannounce_interval <arg>
seconds downloaders should wait between reannouncements (defaults to 1800)
--response_size <arg>
number of peers to send in an info message (defaults to 50)
--timeout_check_interval <arg>
time to wait between checking if any connections have timed out (defaults to 5)
--nat_check <arg>
whether to check back and ban downloaders behind NAT (defaults to 1)
--min_time_between_log_flushes <arg>
minimum time it must have been since the last flush to do another one (defaults to 3.0)
--allowed_dir <arg>
only allow downloads for .torrents in this dir (defaults to '')
--parse_allowed_interval <arg>
minutes between reloading of allowed_dir (defaults to 15)
--show_names <arg>
whether to display names from allowed dir (defaults to 1)
--favicon <arg>
file containing x-icon data to return when browser requests favicon.ico (defaults to '')
--only_local_override_ip <arg>
ignore the ip GET parameter from machines which aren't on local network IPs (defaults to 1)
--logfile <arg>
file to write the tracker logs, use - for stdout (default) (defaults to '')
--allow_get <arg>
use with allowed_dir; adds a /file?hash={hash} url that allows users to download the torrent file (defaults to 0)
--keep_dead <arg>
keep dead torrents after they expire (so they still show up on your /scrape and web page) (defaults to 0)
--max_give <arg>
maximum number of peers to give with any one request (defaults to 200)

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