(rebased to fix conflict)

Any chance for a NixOS test?

Added test.

I'm not entirely sure how one is supposed to use this. I set services.btpd.enable = true;, add myself to the "btpd" group.

# btcli -d /var/lib/btpd stat
cannot open connection to btpd in /var/lib/btpd (Permission denied).
# ls /var/lib/btpd -la
total 16
drwxr-xr-x  3 btpd btpd 4096 Dec 22 12:57 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Dec 22 12:57 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 btpd btpd    5 Dec 22 12:57 pid
srw-------  1 btpd btpd    0 Dec 22 12:57 sock
drwxr-xr-x  2 btpd btpd 4096 Dec 22 12:57 torrents

After forcing the permissions and adding a torrent I got it to crash:

# journalctl -u btpd
-- Logs begin at Thu 2018-12-27 15:27:48 EST, end at Sun 2019-12-22 13:11:23 EST. --
Dec 22 12:57:36 nixos systemd[1]: Started BitTorrent Protocol Daemon.
Dec 22 13:10:42 nixos btpd[10772]: Dec 22 13:10:42 btpd: Starting torrent 'debian-10.2.0-i386-netinst.iso'.
Dec 22 13:10:42 nixos btpd[10772]: Dec 22 13:10:42 error: failed to stat '/home/user/debian-10.2.0-i386-netinst.iso' (Permission denied).
Dec 22 13:10:42 nixos btpd[10772]: Dec 22 13:10:42 btpd: Stopped torrent 'debian-10.2.0-i386-netinst.iso'.
Dec 22 13:10:42 nixos systemd[1]: btpd.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=11/SEGV
Dec 22 13:10:42 nixos systemd[1]: btpd.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'.

This may become abandonware: btpd/btpd#47

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Btpd appears to have been taken over, but I'm not sure there are still people interested in this?

@GrahamcOfBorg eval
@GrahamcOfBorg build btpd
@GrahamcOfBorg test btpd

I marked this as stale due to inactivity. → More info

Still nice to have.

Closing as dead. Anyone feel free to restart!