From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 30 11:53:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f94.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.241.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A0EB937B890 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:53:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from suckworldcreator@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 59713 invoked by uid 0); 30 Mar 2000 19:53:24 -0000 Message-ID: <20000330195324.59712.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 204.41.10.21 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:53:24 PST X-Originating-IP: [204.41.10.21] From: "Sarah Li" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: using & commands Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 14:53:24 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To whom it may concern: I am currently doing a project on Free BSD and I have a few questions. The first one is what is the & along with a command used for? and what does it mean by putting it into the background? also, how would you stop a background task that has gone beserk? If you would answer these questions as soon as possible, it will be greatly appreciated. Sincerly, Sarah Li ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message