> On 12 Sep 2022, at 17:08, fraser kendall <lfs.mailing@???> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 11 Sep 2022 11:43:12 -0400
> fsmithred via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>
>> Please seed. Thanks.
>
> Hi to all. I have a headless backup machine (with about 2T spare
> capacity) that I'd be willing to use as a long-term seeding host, but I
> have no knowledge about how to do this securely, and it'd have to be
> managed via ssh. I have a couple of questions.
>
> 1) How do I get the client to continue to run after logging off? Is it
> as simple as a remote command:
>
> $ aria2c -V --seed-ratio=0.0 -d /home/devuan/torrent
> https://files.devuan.org/devuan_chimaera.torrent & exit
>
> or should I keep the ssh instance open on the local host to monitor
> what's going on?
>
> 2) Should the client be chrooted?
>
> 3) Any advice on a secure aria2.conf would be appreciated.
>
> Many thanks
>
> fraser

I can’t speak to aria2, but transmission has a cli/remote client and daemon you can run on a headless server.

Tom