On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 17:32, Zenaan Harkness wrote: --snip-- > You see, I want to be able to log in from my laptop, start a > long-running process, and exit while the process continues. > > I thought one of the above should have worked too. > > If anyone knows a simple solution, please holler with an example command > line. This sounds like a job for 'screen'! Faster than a quad-processor P4, more powerful than a Radeon 9800, able to start, background, and detach a process in a single command, it's 'screen'! It slices, it dices... ok... I'll stop now. :) apt-get install screen ssh mymachine screen processToRun C-a, C-d logout If you want to come back to it later: ssh mymachine screen -r -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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