I wanted to run torrents from my Linux server, rather than running them on my Windows laptop. Further, I wanted a system that needed very little intervention.
To parse the torrent log, I use a
small perl script, which runs as a daemon.
To start or stop torrents, I simply place the torrent file in a directory, or remove the torrent from the directory. The torrent daemon picks them up automagically. The directory (in the above example) is:
/home/share/video/torrents/active/