TomatoUSB

Hi, I've successfully installed the optware, including ipkg etc. and I like this approach much better than the huge scripts where I don't know what is going on. Currently all I'm trying to achieve is an rtorrent server, with a webgui (rutorrent)

installing the rtorrent package was no problem, but the daemon is not started and I get some weird errors during the installation of some packages. In short, some essential bins are missing, like "screen", "tee", "chown" and "su". Of these, I've only been able to find "screen" as a package.

How have others, claiming to have succesfully installed optware, solved this?

Google is your friend.

Also, try to find the missing packages by doing
ipkg list | grep {whatever you are looking for}
Nine times out of ten, that will show you the package name you need to install.

For torrenting with optware I'd highly recommend transmission (NOT transmissiond which is a much older fork). The default install is the latest transmission daemon with a very nice webgui.

Thanks for the suggestions, but sadly I am aware of grep (it is hardly possible not to be if you do anything with a shell). They simply are not in the repository, or if they are, they are not specifically named (i.e. in some big package like devel).
And I know many people prefer transmission, but after some research I decided to go with rtorrent. I can always switch of course, but it doesn't exactly fix my problem, just circumvent it. These are basic bins.

screen is there and you might look into coreutils

Yeah, coreutils is what's needed. After installing the package you won't see the commands as you normally would.
The commands will be stuff like coreutils-su, coreutils-tee, etc.
Just create symlinks to the commands you need and things should/might work out.
"ln -s coreutils-chown chown"

Thanks, that should help me out :)