Now that I can ssh from anywhere to my linux box using my new Treo 650 and pssh, I am really enjoying the authoritative command-line versions of bittorrent straight from Bram Cohen. All I needed was a way to easily ssh in, play with torrents, and disconnect without stopping bittorrent. There are three ways that I know of to leave processes running after disconnecting from a terminal:
This is specifically designed to run processes detached from terminal.
eg: (./btlaunchmany.py torrent/active/ > torrent.log 2>&1 &) &
This is an entire “screen manager” for processes that use the terminal to display output.
[screen] really kicks booty – screen and btlaunchmanycurses.py are a perfect match:
Try it out, it rocks! More on this here…
