Re: running program in background

[Hidong Kim <kim emeraldbiostructures com>]

Devon wrote:
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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?
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> In the case of seti:
> cd setidirectory
> ./setiathome -email &

The & will run the job in the background.  But if you log out of your
session,  I think the job will die.  If you use nohup, your job will
continue to run after you log out, as long as the machine stays up.  You
can do 'nohup <command> &' to run the job in the background, and have it
persist after you log out.  nohup should be in /usr/bin/nohup.