OPENTRACKER(8)

🌈 OPENTRACKER ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the opentracker page — she's an Open bittorrent tracker, she's in section 8 of the manual, and she's lowkey a legend. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

opentracker [ -i ip ] [ -p port ] [ -P port ] [ -r redirect ] [ -d dir ]
[ -u user ] [ -A ip ] [ -f config ] [ -s livesyncport ] [ -w
whitelistfile ]

yeah she takes a LOT of flags, don't panic, we'll go through every single one together 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so. this tracker is open in the sense that literally everyone announcing a torrent is welcome to do so and they'll be told about anyone else announcing that same torrent. no gatekeeping, no velvet rope, just vibes ✨

only source IPs are accepted. that's it, that's the rule.

she implements a minimal set of essential features only — like, she's not doing the most, she's doing exactly enough — but bestie she was able to respond to far more than 10000 requests per second on a Sun Fire 2200 M2. that's not a typo. that's where they found no more clients able to fire more of their testsuite.sh script. absolute main character energy 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

every flag, every default, every single one. we do not skip. periodt 💖

• -f config — include and execute the config file 📄
• -i ip — specify ip to bind to (default: *, and yes you may specify more than one 👯)
• -p port — specify tcp port to bind to (default: 6969, you may specify more than one 👯)
• -P port — specify udp port to bind to (default: 6969, you may specify more than one 👯) — note the capital P bestie, she's a different girl
• -r redirecturl — specify url where / should be redirected to (default none) 🔀
• -d dir — specify directory to try to chroot to (default: ".") 📁
• -u user — specify user under whose privileges opentracker should run (default: "nobody") 🫥
• -A ip — bless an ip address as admin address (e.g. to allow syncs from this address) 🙏
• -w file — specify whitelist file 📝

and then there's this little crew of helpers:

• -h, -?, --help — show a help message and exit 🆘
• -ht, --host HOST — host (default: localhost) 🏠
• -p, --port PORT — port (default: 8080) 🔌
• -mp, --multiprocessor PROCESS_COUNT — define how many processes for the grammar checker 🧠
• -t, --test_page — page to test the server on / 🧪
• -on, --opt-on [OPT]... — activate options ✅
• -off, --opt-off [OPT]... — deactivate options ❌

⚠️ okay heads up bestie: -p shows up twice in this page with two totally different defaults (6969 for the tcp port, 8080 for --port). that's just how she is. i don't make the rules, i just report them fr fr 💀

and that's the whole page, you ate that 💅

this gorgeous thing is opentracker, it's part of User Commands, dated July 2021, and it lives at the bottom of the page as OPENTRACKER(8). go forth and track some torrents, queen 👑💖🌸