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....