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Re: process running after logout, howto ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Mon Nov 2 16:55:22 1998
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 16:24:28 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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"Heltzel, Dennis" wrote:
> You must use "nohup" at the beginning of the command if you intend to log
> out.
This is officially true, but on Linux, running bash, background jobs don't
seem to die when you log out, even if you forget to nohup.
>
> Just putting a & at the end will still result in a kill signal going to the
> process when you log out.
> Nohup (no hangup) causes the process to disconnect from your shell's process
> space and connect to "init", which is process 1 and never dies (we hope !).
>
> An alternative is to use the "at" or "cron" command. They are very useful
> for this sort of thing.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Borek Lupomesky [SMTP:Borek.Lupomesky@ujep.cz]
> > Sent: Monday, November 02, 1998 7:12 AM
> > To: RedHat Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: process running after logout, howto ?
> >
> > On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Claudiu Balciza wrote:
> >
> > > I use to start long jobs (20-30 hrs) on some remote system and I would
> > > like to logout for a while. How can I do that ?
> >
> > For non-interactive jobs use simply "&" at the end of command line. For
> > full-screen apps use screen(1).
> >
> > Bye Borek
> >
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