Re: Can't logout before command finished

[David Brodbeck <brodbd@u.washington.edu>]

On Dec 19, 2007, at 11:55 PM, H.H. Ding wrote:
>    I ssh to remote host, then run a program and put it to background,
> then I try to logout, but bash paused and wait until the program
> finished. How can I logout immeditaly?

There's extensive technical discussion here, which sheds some light on  
why this was so hard to fix:
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52
If I'm reading the comments correctly, though, it may be fixed in  
version 4.6p1.  (Etch appears to be using 4.3p2.)