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Re: can backgrounded processes outlive a login?



Rob Mahurin wrote:
> 
> Let's say that I have some program I need to run that will take several
> hours, and that I want to end my login session so I don't have to worry
> about curious passersby coming and doing terrible things while my account is
> logged on.  It seems that there should be some way to accomplish this.  Is
> there?  I haven't seen anything.

When you are starting the job use "nohup" command for it. Look on "info
nohup".


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