---
name: "bttrack.bittorrent"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "bittorrent"
version: "3.4.2-12"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/bttrack.bittorrent"
---

# bttrack.bittorrent(1)

tracker for bittorrent

## NAME

bttrack - tracker for bittorrent

## SYNOPSIS

**bttrack  *\[ option ... \]***

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the *bttrack* command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**bttrack** is a program that serves as a "tracker" for  bittorrent clients.  This program keeps track of the completion of each client, and communicates that information when requested to other clients.

## OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (\`-'). A summary of options is included below.

- **--port *portnum***

  listen on port *portnum* (default 80)

- **--dfile *filename***

  store recent downloader info in *filename*

- **--bind *ip***

  bind to *ip* instead of the default

- **--socket\_timeout *secs***

  timeout for closing connections (default 15)

- **--save\_dfile\_interval *secs***

  seconds between saving dfile (default 300)

- **--timeout\_downloaders\_interval *secs***

  seconds between expiring downloaders (default 2700)

- **--reannounce\_interval *secs***

  seconds downloaders should wait between reannouncements (default 1800)

- **--response\_size *num***

  number of peers to send in an info message (default 50)

- **--timeout\_check\_interval *secs***

  time to wait between checking if any connections have timed out (default 5)

- **--nat\_check *\[ 1 \| 0 \]***

  whether to check back and ban downloaders behind NAT (default 1)

- **--min\_time\_between\_log\_flushes *secs***

  minimum time it must have been since the last flush to do another one (default 3.0)

- **--allowed\_dir *path***

  only allow downloads for .torrents in this directory (default '')

- **--parse\_allowed\_interval *mins***

  minutes between reloading of allowed\_dir (default 15)

- **--show\_names *\[ 1 \| 0 \]***

  whether to display names from allowed dir (default 1)

## SEE ALSO

**bittorrent-downloader**(1), **btmakemetafile**(1).\

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Michael Janssen \<jamuraa@debian.org\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).