From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 22 14:19:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-giga.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.241.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 875D337B422 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 14:19:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gmx.de (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA10515; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 23:19:47 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <39A2EE72.79CAAE09@gmx.de> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 23:19:46 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Odhiambo Washington , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Telnet References: <001401c00ba9$da5f6f80$f6b51ec4@zeus> <20000822201738.G67392@siafu.iconnect.co.ke> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Odhiambo, > I am assumming that you want the process to go on while you go for a few > drinks but you have to log off telnet?? > > add & after the command running the process. It will be run in the > background ;-) > > e.g root@earth% wget -r ftp://some/site/some/file & For wget there exists the -b (background) option. The log is then automatically written to a file. But I think wget is somehow special. Normally I would use nohup command & . This will ignore SIGHUP and SIGQUIT. Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message