Re: Multi-user, Multi-tasking.

[Albert DE WINT <adwint pandora be>]

Op ma 16-06-2003, om 23:48 schreef Zak McGregor:
> On 16 Jun 2003 23:38:00 +0200
> Albert DE WINT <adwint pandora be> wrote:
>  
> > Right now I'm running a number crunching application that takes a VERY
> > long time.  So, I want this job to continue, even when another,
> > non-privileged user comes in to run his tasks.  How can this be done?
> 
> Assuming you don't need two X servers running (which can be done, just I've
> never needed to and so don't know what is needed to get it working), you can
> nohup the task and put it in the background. From command-line, execute the
> command like this:
> 
> nohup /path/to/number-crunching-program &
> 
> The & is important - that puts the task in background.
> 
> You can the safely logout and the task will run to completion.

Thanks! I understand.  
Well it's a command-line job, so I don't need two X servers.

> 
> You may want to investigate all the options to nohup as the default output file,
> nohup.out, could get rather big if your output is huge.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Ciao
> 
> Zak
> 
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