From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 28 00:05:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA08373 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 28 Jun 1997 00:05:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spacehog.structured.net (spacehog.structured.net [206.58.33.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA08365 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 1997 00:05:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spacehog.structured.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spacehog.structured.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA09407 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 1997 00:06:05 GMT Message-ID: <33B4556B.9A5C1535@spacehog.structured.net> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 00:06:04 +0000 From: Justin Ashworth Reply-To: ashworth@cs.montana.edu Organization: Pretty cruddy X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b5C (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-970209-SNAP i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: nohup? X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk How can I telnet into a machine, start a process, and exit without killing the process? I have tried nohup with the syntax "nohup prog_name &", but when I tried to log out it told me that there were suspended processes. What can I do? Thanks... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Justin Ashworth, Intern Structured Network Systems justin@structured.net http://www.structured.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- I've got some powdered water, but I don't know what to add. -- Stephen Wright