Sheep Seed Thing
Dean wrote the Sheep Seed Thing to allow any server to contribute
bandwidth to the distribution of sheep. It's running on
ethereal which already donates a lot of bandwidth
to the sheep project. It's packaged as a unix
daemon with an "rc start/stop" style interface, so you can run it from cron totally automatically. It reads the RSS feed
and downloads all torrents with the python
bittorrent client. It also depends
on wget but not on any perl modules. You will need to customize
this
code...
Feedback welcome. You can email dean directly, or comment below.
I think with a few hacks you should also be able to run this to fetch sheep for your client if you have linux, instead of running azureus.
Posted by spot at August 5, 2006 05:28 PM
i ended up needing to use a few perl modules in sheep-seed-thing... but they're all pretty standard. (Fcntl, File::Temp and LWP). if you downloaded an earlier version you may want to grab it again.
-dean