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j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckM <div class="post">Version 0.2.6 on SVN can now run as a daemon and be controlled by command line or JSON-RPC.<br/><br/>On Linux it needs libgtk2.0-0 installed, but does not need a GUI running. &nbsp;Hopefully gtk can be installed without having a windowing system installed.<br/><br/>The command to start as a daemon is:<br/>bitcoin -daemon [switches...]<br/><br/>Or, to run the UI normally and also be able to control it from command line or JSON-RPC, use the "-server" switch.<br/>bitcoin -server [switches...]<br/><br/>With either switch, it runs an HTTP JSON-RPC server that accepts local socket connections on 127.0.0.1:8332. &nbsp;The port is bound to loopback and can only be accessed from the local machine, but from any account, not just the user it's running under.<br/><br/>To control it from the command line, the interface is a command name without any switches, followed by parameters if any.<br/>bitcoin &lt;command&gt; [params...]<br/><br/>For example:<br/>bitcoin getinfo<br/>bitcoin getdifficulty<br/>bitcoin setgenerate true<br/>bitcoin stop<br/><br/>It's a simple JSON-RPC client and prints the JSON result. &nbsp;Look at rpc.cpp for the list of commands.<br/><br/>Web apps or anything automated will normally use JSON-RPC directly, not command line. &nbsp;There are JSON-RPC libraries for all the major languages. &nbsp;In script languages like PHP and Python the syntax is as natural as calling a local function.</div> text/html