Re: running program in background

[Devon <devon tuxfan homeip net>]

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On Wednesday 27 February 2002 10:03 pm, Hidong Kim wrote:

> 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.

That's why I specified 'in the case of seti' :)
Seti continues happily without a controlling tty.
$  ps ax | grep seti
20410 ?        RN   2916:33 ./setiathome -email

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