Ubuntu terminal freeze

Question

When I run this command it freezes terminal so I can't send new commands to the server. Is there a way to send this command and then send new commands while this command continues.

deluge-web

Best Regards

Answer 1

Method 1: You can suffix the command with an & to make the program run in the background.

deluge-web &

Method 2: You can also background a process after you've started like this:

deluge
Ctrl + Z
bg

The Ctrl + Z sends a SIGSTOP signal to the process making the process suspend and you get control over the terminal. The bg command would make the last suspended process go into background and start executing it again.

Method 3: An option specific to your command from this page, which says:

You can also use the --fork option to have the deluge-web process run in the background and again, you may want to use an InitScript.

deluge-web --fork

So it should automatically make the deluge-web program start in the background and you should be getting control of your terminal.