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. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"