SETUP

Please backup your database first. Something like this should do it.

mysqldump --opt -u root -p newznab > ~/newznab_backup.sql
This first step will modify your setup using andrewit's github
convert database to innodb, edit path if necessary

cd /var/www/newznab/misc/testing/

git clone git://github.com/itandrew/Newznab-InnoDB-Dropin.git innodb

php5 innodb/lib/innodb/convertToInnoDB.php
Create a folder.
Move to that folder.
Clone my github

cd /var/www/newznab/misc/update_scripts/nix_scripts/

git clone https://github.com/jonnyboy/newznab-tmux.git tmux

cd tmux

nano edit_these.sh
Edit some permissions, run as root.

./set_perms.sh
Run my script, as user.

./start.sh
If you connect using putty, then under Window/Translation set Remote character set to UTF-8.
If something looks stalled, it probably isn't. If all 5 panes are still there, it is most likely, as it should be.