Ocelot

Ocelot is a BitTorrent tracker written in C++ for the Gazelle project. It supports requests over TCP and can only track IPv4 peers.

Ocelot Compile-time Dependencies

• GCC/G++ (4.7+ required; 4.8.1+ recommended)
• Boost (1.55.0+ required)
• libev (required)
• MySQL++ (3.2.0+ required)
• TCMalloc (optional, but strongly recommended)
• spdlog (0.11.0+ required)

Installation

Debian Jessie

sudo apt-get install pkg-config libev-dev libboost-all-dev
git clone https://github.com/gabime/spdlog src/spdlog
./configure --with-boost-libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

The Gazelle installation guides include instructions for installing Ocelot as a part of the Gazelle project.

Standalone Installation

• Create the following tables according to the Gazelle database schema:

• torrents
• users_freeleeches
• users_main
• xbt_client_whitelist
• xbt_files_users
• xbt_snatched

• Edit ocelot.conf to your liking.

• Build Ocelot:

    ./configure
    make
    make install
  

Running Ocelot

Run-time options:

• -c <path/to/ocelot.conf> or --config <path/to/ocelot.conf> - Path to config file. If unspecified, the current working directory is used.
• -v or --verbose - Print queue status every time a flush is initiated.
• -V or --version - Print Ocelot version and exit.
• -d or --daemonize - Run Ocelot as a daemon

Signals

• SIGHUP - Reload config
• SIGUSR1 - Reload torrent list, user list and client whitelist