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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
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Subject: Re: nohup?
In-Reply-To: <33B4556B.9A5C1535@spacehog.structured.net> from Justin Ashworth at "Jun 28, 97 00:06:04 am"
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Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 18:03:54 +0200 (MET DST)
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> 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?

This warning is a 'feature' of some shells. If you want to log out
via `exit' from sh(1), it will warn you once and let you go the second
time. So just keep on with `exit'.

Wolfgang