Thanks (to Thomas and Greg) for the suggestions to use screen. I'll look into it. I wrote: > Is there a way to tell the process to keep running even if > its terminal is disconnected, and then later re-attach a > terminal to it, [...] -- Frank frank.sergeant@pobox.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .