My company is about to get a dedicated server for its corporate website. I will not have the root password as this is "managed hosting". But I will have shell access through ssh, and can set cron jobs. Our server will have plenty of bandwidth through diverse backbones.

I would like to install a Gnutella program on this dedicated web server. File downloading is out of the question, as it would get me fired, but I can leave Limewire up just to support the Gnutella network. This will help Gnutella but not benefit our company, but why not help if it doesn't cost us anything?

I have a few questions from those of you who have done this before:

1) Can I run Limewire as a background process on Linux without root access to the server?

2) Is there a special version of Limewire focused on file serving and supporting the network, but not on file downloading?

3) Assuming I won't download anything, is there another Gnutella program which is better suited to supporting and aiding Gnutella network traffic?

I might as well use this server's spare bandwidth for something productive....

Yes.

No, but you could just start the LimeWire core. Without the GUI it won't be able to start any downloads.

To start the core make sure all LimeWire jars are in your classpath (using the -cp option) and run the com.limegroup.gnutella.Main class

"java -cp .all jars as a colon separated list) com.limegroup.gnutella.Main"

No.

Yes.

LimeWire will try to create a ".limewire" directory in your home, - you might want to take a look at the limewire.props file to edit the necessary option. Or you could run LimeWire in GUI mode once to configure LimeWire appropriately for your system.