& vs nohup

[M.W. Chang]

> nohup - run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty
> & just backgrounds the process

I don't know how btdownloadheadless.py works, but it would stop 
processing if I just background it, while with nohup it would stay alive 
and keeps uploading.

> BTW, i'd recommend running btdownloadcurses inside screen.  alot less 
> messy, and easier to manage.

with nohup, I could check the progress with `tail nohup.out`. And once 
done, I don't  care about its output.

BTW< there is another really small bittorrent client called ctorrent, 
available from sourceforge.net.

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