For a GUI, ktorrent scratches my itch. Persists indefinitely -- across power failures, reboots, etc.; provides many stats. From rpmforge: ktorrent-2.2.1-1.el5.rf For a curses solution, I like bittorrent-curses from the bittorrent-4.4.0-1.el5.rf package -- also from rpmforge.
is there a cli option?