Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:27:04 -0300 From: Augusto Jun Devegili <freebsd@devegili.org> To: Robert Storey <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: log off with process running Message-ID: <1080264423.630.11.camel@gandalf> In-Reply-To: <20040326092248.4845573e.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> References: <20040326092248.4845573e.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net>
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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.
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