Running Bitcoin on command-line-only system I want to run a Bitcoin client on a command-line-only system (Amazon EC2). Is there some specific command-line parameters I should use in order to run the main client without the GUI, or will it run properly without any parameters? How do I later check the status of the client (check number of connections, balance, etc)?
To run it as a daemon type:

$ bitcoind -daemon
bitcoin server starting
$


You can then use the API calls to do whatever you want:

$ bitcoind getblockcount
153407
$ bitcoind getconnectioncount
20