AMule Project FAQ - User contributions [en]

AMuleCMD

2004-09-24T03:01:09Z

203.217.44.171:

To run AMuleCMD simply type the command name at a command prompt. Note it's all lower case.

$>amulecmd

(This is based on linux. You may need to go to the actual directory on other o/s's if it's not in the path.)

I needed to set "use tcp ports instead of unix local sockets" to be on, in Preferences->Remote Connection->External Connection Parameters.

You can also set the password in same preferences section.

With aMule v2.0.0rc5:
According to the amulecmd help you can perform the following commands.

Quit

Help

Stats

Show DL

Resume n

Pause n

ServerStatus

Connect

.Disconnect

You can also do "Show UL" which doesn't do anything as of rc5 version.

AMuleCMD

2004-09-24T03:00:33Z

203.217.44.171:

To run AMuleCMD simply type the command name at a command prompt. Note it's all lower case.

$>amulecmd

(This is based on linux. You may need to go to the actual directory on other o/s's if it's not in the path.)

I needed to set "use tcp ports instead of unix local sockets" to be on, in Preferences->Remote Connection->External Connection Parameters.

You can also set the password in same preferences section.

With aMule v2.0.0rc5:
According to the amulecmd help you can perform the following commands.

Quit
Help
Stats
Show DL
Resume n
Pause n
ServerStatus
Connect
.Disconnect

You can also do "Show UL" which doesn't do anything as of rc5 version.

External Connections

2004-09-24T02:29:01Z

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External Connections is the ''bi-directional'' way [[aMule]] has to communicate with external utilities, like the [[aMuleWeb]] and [[aMuleCMD]]. So, when a user is controlling [[aMule]] remotely, it is sending the commands through the External Conections port and [[aMule]] is reading them there (when controlling through a web browser, what is really happening is that [[aMuleWeb]] is getting the actions, interpreting them and sending the commands to the External Connection ports).

If both [[aMule]] and their utilities run on the same machine, there's no need to redirect the External Connections port in a [[Firewall]]ed environment (NAT network with a router, etc...). If you had to connect to the External Connections port from somewhere out of the network, it would be necessary to configure the router/[[Firewall]]/etc properly to accept connections through the External Connection port (this would happen, for example, connecting through [[aMuleCMD]] from somewhere outside the network).

'''NOTE:''' There are alternate ways of communicating with [[aMule]] although External Connections is the only ''bi-directional'' way.<br>
Other ways would be the [[Signature|Online Signature]] (outgoing direction) and [[ED2KLinks file]] (ingoing direction).