On Dec 16, 2005, at 12:25 AM, Jerry W. Hubbard wrote:
> What am I doing incorrectly, or what don't I understand?
> The command:
> find / -name abc > /tmp/myfind &
> input in a root terminal, runs the process in the background.
> But,  the same comand input in a user account fails to run in the
> background.

What you're doing should work.  What happens to make you think it  
doesn't run in the background?  That is, what happens if you run the  
following:

$ find / -name abc > /tmp/myfind & sleep 10
$ jobs
$ ls -la /tmp/myfind

Does jobs report anything running in the background?  Does the ls  
show /tmp/myfind?  Is /tmp full?

> I am running bash shell on CentOS 4.2 i386.

I'm running FC4 and find is running in the background in my user  
shell just fine.

Regards,
- Robert
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