Re: running program in background

[Hidong Kim <kim emeraldbiostructures com>]

OK.




Devon wrote:
> 
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> 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
> 
> - -D
> 
> - --
> 
> pgp key:  http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/pgpkey.txt
> 
> - --
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)
> Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org
> 
> iD8DBQE8faBMeMAUbzJhSVcRAkluAJ0Tr1f7IMA0vmY4zPIPYV75QP/SdACfX5nT
> IL48KQCojlvVWhBpMaTVJc8=
> =m6E+
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Redhat-list mailing list
> Redhat-list redhat com
> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list