Placing bittorrent @ background in Linux

[ugh]

Hi folks,

Anyone here knows how to let BT continue d/l at the background in Linux? I've tried it but it just stops. I've tried 2 ways, launching the proggie with the & sign and running the proggie and then doing CTRL-Z and bg.

BTW, I used both the headless and curses script.

TIA.

 

[Nothinman]

I always use the ncurses one and leave it run in the fg so I can see the transfer rates. I also use screen so I can have many shells running in one xterm.

 

[ugh]

Hmm... Thanks for the reply. I guess I'll install X coz my previous installation got a bit stuffed up 🙂

 

[Nothinman]

screen works fine on any terminal, no X required.

 

[CTho9305]

if you dont want to see the output:
./blah >& /dev/null &

I don't remember if it is >& or &>. Nothinman can tell you 😉.

 

[CTho9305]

double post

 

[ugh]

nothingman: I've tried that but once I put it to bg, it dies 🙂

 

[n0cmonkey]

Use screen. It is quite possibly one of the best programs ever written.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: CTho9305
if you dont want to see the output:
./blah >& /dev/null &

I don't remember if it is >& or &>. Nothinman can tell you 😉.

./blah > /dev/null

if you don't want to see stderr, then:

./blah > /dev/null 2>&1

not sure what this has to do with running things in the background though. 😛

 

[Vadatajs]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Use screen. It is quite possibly one of the best programs ever written.

Screen is nice. I use it mostly over ssh, but it comes in really handy.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: CTho9305
if you dont want to see the output:
./blah >& /dev/null &

I don't remember if it is >& or &>. Nothinman can tell you 😉.

./blah > /dev/null

if you don't want to see stderr, then:

./blah > /dev/null 2>&1

not sure what this has to do with running things in the background though. 😛

I'm assuming the problem is that even though he runs "blah &", it still dumps crap on the screen. redirecting it to the bit bucket makes it invisible.

 

[ugh]

n0cmonkey: Thanks for the info. Will look into this command.

CTho9305: Ditto. Redirecting output in anyway doesn't help 🙂