Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 17:32:36 -0800 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: Augusto Jun Devegili <freebsd@devegili.org> Cc: Robert Storey <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> Subject: Re: log off with process running Message-ID: <764CBAD9-7EC5-11D8-B47A-000393681B06@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <1080264423.630.11.camel@gandalf> References: <20040326092248.4845573e.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> <1080264423.630.11.camel@gandalf>
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On Mar 25, 2004, at 17:27, Augusto Jun Devegili wrote: > nohup is a possible solution; check its man page. > > Example: > > $ nohup wget http://server/big.iso & > > On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 05:22, Robert Storey wrote: >> I want to log off and hang up the modem. The question is, how to do >> so? With the >> above process running, I can't even get back to the command line to >> type "exit" >> (and wouldn't typing "exit" kill any process I'm running?). Ditto if >> I hit >> ctrl-c. I suppose I could just hang up the modem, but that's not >> elegant. I use nohup for that all the time. Works fine.
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