Re: job control

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

cletus.yokel@hushmail.com wrote:
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> This is not a debian question, but it's so generic I'm not sure where else
> to ask it.
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> How do you free a process from your login? I want to start a commandline
> program, then logoff and have the program continue to execute. Currently
> I'm using  at  as a work around, but it seems like you should be able to
> interactively "spin" the process off on its own. Thanks.

  nohup, I think you can also set up the shell not to kill children when
it exits (start command in background (append & at the end of command
line) or background it while it works, usually ctrl-z to stop it, bg to
make it continue in background)

	erik