Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 23:19:46 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de> To: Odhiambo Washington <vedette@iconnect.co.ke>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Telnet Message-ID: <39A2EE72.79CAAE09@gmx.de> References: <001401c00ba9$da5f6f80$f6b51ec4@zeus> <20000822201738.G67392@siafu.iconnect.co.ke>
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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
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