[olug] Keep process running after closing terminal

[Trent Melcher]

You may have to run it with nohup,  if your process is prone to hangups, it
will die when you log out of a terminal even with the & at the end.  

Trent 

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Jake
Churchill
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:26 PM
To: Omaha Linux User Group; eric.maillist at gmail.com
Subject: Re: [olug] Keep process running after closing terminal

Put a & after the command.  For example, if you want to run updatedb which
takes about 8 minutes on my computer, type updatedb&.  It will output the
PID and you can go about your business.


On Apr 19, 2005, at 11:17 PM, Eric P wrote:

> I'm sure this is basic as hell.
>
> I want to log onto one of my computers on the LAN, run a console based 
> program on it, and log off with the console based program still 
> running (i.e., not close out when the terminal window is closed).
>
> How is this done?
>
> Thanks,
> Eric Pierce
>
>
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