Re: running program in background

[Devon <devon tuxfan homeip net>]

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On Wednesday 27 February 2002 09:38 pm, Julian Opificius wrote:
> Could somebody please remind me how to run a program (in this case,
> SETI) from the command line such that it will stay running when I close
> the window?

In the case of seti:
cd setidirectory
./setiathome -email &

Will put it in the background and send you mail if it encounters a 
problem. Given the current bandwidth problems the seti project is having, 
and the connections it is dropping as the result, you may want to skip 
the email option.

- -D

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