From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 26 16:15:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns-exch05.jccc.net (ns-exch05.jccc.net [198.248.56.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D23FF37B423 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:15:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ndunker@jccc.net) Received: by ns-exch05 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 18:13:01 -0500 Message-ID: From: Noah Dunker To: 'Mark Livingstone' , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: how to run process in background? Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 18:12:54 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG try these: bash-2.03$ nohup whatever& or bash-2.03$ whatever& [1] 31337 bash-2.03$ set NOHUP bash-2.03$ exit The first tells the shell not to send SIGHUP to that specific process. The second example tells the shell not to send SIGHUP to any background processes. Noah Dunker Systems Analyst/Technician Johnson County Community College -----Original Message----- From: Mark Livingstone [mailto:mlivingstone@ottawa.com] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 6:07 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: how to run process in background? HI! How do i run a process in background except for using "screen" and "&" syntax? when i type "whatever &" and then exit my shell.. it tells me that the process is SIGHUPED (hangup, whatever..).. seems like it's running after that ok.. but i don't know how to reattach to it. is there another way? i heard about "fork". but man page doesn't say mcuch ;( thanks for help! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message