Re: OT Linux question - running a process in background

From: Paul Howarth (paul_at_city-fan.org)
Date: 06/16/05

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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:31:58 +0100

    On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 17:39 -0500, Michael Yep wrote:
    > Hello
    >
    > This is a general Linux question:
    >
    > I have a large tar operation i started via a SSH terminal
    > Can I some how logoff / disconnect and not kill that process ?
    > In the past i have hit ctrl Z to send it to the background, but when I
    > logout, all my jobs terminate
    > I heard that you can do something like this with NOHUP, but my process
    > is running

    If you're using bash, try "disown -a" before logging off.

    Paul. 

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