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)
• spdlog (required)
• MySQL++ (3.2.0+ required)
• jemalloc (optional, but strongly recommended)
• TCMalloc (optional)

Installation

Debian Stretch

sudo apt-get install \
    build-essential \
    cmake \
    default-libmysqlclient-dev \
    libboost-iostreams-dev \
    libboost-system-dev \
    libev-dev \
    libjemalloc-dev \
    libmysql++-dev \
    pkg-config
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

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
• torrents_leech_stats
• users_freeleeches
• users_leech_stats
• users_main
• xbt_client_whitelist
• xbt_files_users
• xbt_snatched

• Edit ocelot.conf to your liking.

• Build Ocelot:

    mkdir build
    cd build
    cmake ..
    make
  

Running Ocelot

Run-time options:

• -c <path/to/ocelot.conf> - Path to config file. If unspecified, the current working directory is used.
• -v - Print queue status every time a flush is initiated.

Signals

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