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Email Reports, Logs

The system can send automatic email reports about various activities with the help of ssmtp and cron and you can easily create your own. It also logs every major event to a file.

Reports by Queue Manager

Queue Manager sends email reports about its regular activity or about various problems.

Regular report

It can include 5 different activities in its regular reports (all of them are configurable and enabled by default):

A possible email report that includes all 3 components looks like this:

  • subject: U - Making Free space, Bogus torrents!, Duplicated torrents!, Oversized torrents!, Queued 3 torrents 
Free space before action: 5GiB

Deleted torrents (free space required: 4.0GiB + 2.9GiB - 5GiB = 1.9GiB):
     275MiB - gasslight2015-08-01.flac16
     3.3GiB - Pushing Through the Pavement Remixes
Deleted data size: 3.6GiB


Bogus torrents has been moved into bogus directory, manual interaction is required.
          0 - Notvalidtorrentfile


Duplicated torrents has been moved into duplicated directory, manual interaction is required.
      18MiB - HealthFoodChoicesInThailand
     8.3MiB - 050815LOSHIJOSDELBOLERO


Oversized torrents has been moved into oversized directory, manual interaction is required.
   235.4GiB / 978.2GiB - OverSizeMe


Queued 3 torrents:
     1.8GiB - Atlantic Anime Blend Ezine
   256.5MiB - Baen_CD-08-Into_the_Looking_Glass.iso
   912.1MiB - JPFO 2A Today for the USA MP4

Downloadable data size: 2.9GiB

Reports about problems

It will also notify you about various problems.

Insufficient disk space

It can happen that deletion wasn't successful, it sends a report with subject U - Error: insufficient disk space!!!! like this:

Free space before action: 5GiB

Error in disk space: deleting from rotating directories wasn't enough... :(
   You have to fix it manually :(
Uptime:  18:30:18 up 61 days, 10 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.07, 0.08, 0.04

rTorrent is stopped

It can happen that rTorrent-PS-CH stopped running, it sends a report with subject U - Error: rtorrent is not running!!!! like this:

Free space before action: 5GiB

Error in rtorrent: not running for some reason ... :(

Uptime:  18:30:18 up 61 days, 10 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.07, 0.08, 0.04

Dropped HDD

It can happen that mounted HDD was dropped, it sends a report with subject U - Error: Mount!!!! like this:

Error in mount: probably the HDD got lost again ... :(
Uptime:  18:30:18 up 61 days, 10 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.07, 0.08, 0.04

Other useful reports

These reports use rtcontrol command from pyrocore utilities and are created as bash functions in ~/.profile_rtfunctions to be able to be used at the command line as well.

Orphaned torrents

It can happen that data of a torrent gets abandoned, consuming only disk space but actually not used by rTorrent-PS-CH.

reportOrphans.sh lists orphaned torrents, runs in every 10 day as a reminder, a possible email report with subject U - List of Orphaned torrents looks like this:

Free space before action: 6.6GiB

There are orphaned torrents, manual interaction is required.
     1.8 GiB - incomplete/Atlantic Anime Blend Ezine
   256.5 MiB - apps/Baen_CD-08-Into_the_Looking_Glass.iso
   912.1 MiB - songs/JPFO 2A Today for the USA MP4

Orphaned data size: 2.9 GiB

Orphaned meta files

It can happen that meta files of a torrent gets abandoned, not used by rTorrent-PS-CH.

reportOrphanMetas.sh lists orphaned meta files, runs in every 10 day as a reminder, a possible email report with subject U - List of Orphaned meta files looks like this:

Free space before action: 6.6GiB

There are orphaned meta files, manual interaction is required.
   .rtorrent/.completed/rotating/Baen_CD-08-Into_the_Looking_Glass.torrent

Public torrents

Since public torrents are officially supported it's good to know which they are and how much disk space they occupy.

reportPublic.sh lists public torrents, runs in every 10 day as a reminder, a possible email report with subject U - List of Public torrents looks like this:

Free space before action: 6.6GiB

There are public torrents, manual interaction is required.
     1.8 GiB - incomplete/Atlantic Anime Blend Ezine   mininova.org
   256.5 MiB - apps/Baen_CD-08-Into_the_Looking_Glass.iso   bt1.archive.org
   912.1 MiB - songs/JPFO 2A Today for the USA MP4   mininova.org

Public data size: 2.9 GiB

Torrents with unusual tracker message

It can happen that a torrent gets deleted from the tracker, consuming only disk space but actually can not be used by rTorrent-PS-CH.

reportMessages.sh lists torrents with unusual tracker message, runs every day as a reminder, a possible email report with subject U - List of torrents with unusual Tracker Message looks like this:

Free space before action: 6.6GiB

There are torrents with unusual tracker message, manual interaction is required.
     1.8 GiB   incomplete/Atlantic Anime Blend Ezine   mininova.org
         Tracker: [Failure reason "torrent not registered with this tracker"]
   256.5 MiB   apps/Baen_CD-08-Into_the_Looking_Glass.iso   bt1.archive.org
         Tracker: [Failure reason "torrent not registered with this tracker"]
   912.1 MiB   songs/JPFO 2A Today for the USA MP4   mininova.org
         Tracker: [Failure reason "torrent not registered with this tracker"]

Data size of torrents with tracker message:    2.9 GiB

Stopped torrents

This setup never stops any torrent, all the torrents are running all the time. If this happens that means something is wrong with those ones.

reportStopped.sh lists stopped torrents, runs every day as a reminder, a possible email report with subject U - List of Stopped torrents looks like this:

Free space before action: 6.6GiB

There are stopped torrents, manual interaction is required.
   256.5 MiB   apps/Baen_CD-08-Into_the_Looking_Glass.iso   bt1.archive.org
   912.1 MiB   songs/JPFO 2A Today for the USA MP4   mininova.org

Stopped data size:    1.1 GiB

Stuck torrents in incomplete directory

Normally, all the data of torrents get moved from incomplete directory into their final category when their download is finished. If this happens that means that target data directory/file (in one of the sub-directories of main directory) OR meta file (in one of the sub-directories of .completed directory) exists.

reportStuck.sh lists stuck torrents in incomplete directory, runs every day as a reminder, a possible email report with subject U - List of Stuck torrents in 'incomplete' dir looks like this:

Free space before action: 6.6GiB

There are stuck torrents in 'incomplete' directory, manual interaction is required.
   256.5 MiB   Baen_CD-08-Into_the_Looking_Glass.iso   bt1.archive.org
   912.1 MiB   JPFO 2A Today for the USA MP4   mininova.org

Stuck data size:    1.1 GiB

Low rotating space

reportLowRotatingSpace.sh reports low amount (configurable in script) of rotating space (in rotating and unsafe directory, including free space as well), runs every day as a reminder, a possible email report with subject U - Low Rotating space looks like this:

Free space before action: 102GiB

There is low rotating space (in rotating and unsafe directory), manual interaction is required:
   668GiB

Creating your own

You can easily create your own report with the help of rtcontrol, this is what needs to be done:

  • create a new bash function in ~/.profile_rtfunctions
  • export the new function in .profile like the rest are to be able to be used at the command line as well
  • copy and modify an existing report script to your needs in ~/bin/
  • add the new report script to cron

That's it. :)

Logs

In addition to email reports rTorrent-PS-CH can produce log files into .log directory as well.

Messages log

Logs various data of download items (event, title, size, uploaded data, ratio, seeders/leechers scrape info, loaded time, disk free space, tracker) during different events and startup time, being logrotated.

2018-04-26  8:18:04 LOADED     Great Southern Stand Breaking News - Stupid Warning Labels Comedy               1.4G  U:  0.0K  R: ·.00  S: ·/L: ·  26/04/2018  8:18:04 ( 47.3G) opentrackr.org
2018-04-26  8:18:04 STARTED    Great Southern Stand Breaking News - Stupid Warning Labels Comedy               1.4G  U:  0.0K  R: ·.00  S: ·/L: ·  26/04/2018  8:18:04 ( 47.3G) opentrackr.org
2018-04-26  8:19:01 COMPLETED  Great Southern Stand Breaking News - Stupid Warning Labels Comedy               1.4G  U:235.4M  R: ·.16  S:17/L: 6  26/04/2018  8:18:04 ( 45.9G) opentrackr.org
2018-04-26 11:19:01 DELETED    Great Southern Stand Breaking News - Stupid Warning Labels Comedy               1.4G  U:941.6M  R: ·.64  S:49/L: 2  26/04/2018  8:18:04 ( 45.9G) opentrackr.org
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