rTorrent notifications on your iPhone

As mentioned in my previous post I promised to explain how you can create Prowl push notifications using rTorrent and Prowl 4 Linux. It’s actually a variation of the rTorrent download log script that I talked about on in a earlier post. Instead of logging to a file, we are sending a prowl notification using the $d.get_name variable.

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Logging downloads with rTorrent

rTorrent has got to be one of the best torrent clients out there, especially for linux. It’s flexibility really shows when you get down to the nitty gritty in .rtorrent.rc.  I for example wrote a script that logs every download that has been completed to a text file, so that I can review all what I’ve downloaded instead of trying to remember. I shall explain how I did this in this post.

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Creating a Secure SSH Tunnel User

It appears that I have the chronic problem of keeping sites interesting and ongoing due to not providing enough new content. So here I give you a sporadic new post.

SSH Tunneling is great but it is often forgotten that the tunnel is running on a user with access rights to the server.

To combat this you can create a specific user that can only tunnel over ssh whilst not allowing that user to browse directories, execute stuff, etc.

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