On 06 December 2006 13:07, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 12:05:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > I've not use nohup for a few years, not since I discovered screen, > > > but ISTR you need to run in in the background. > > > > nohup was designed to do things like run a process overnight and still > > allow the user to logout from the shell that launched it, without > > killing the nohup-ed process. stdout goes to a file in case you want to > > review it later. > > I know that, but the last time I used it, i needed to background the > nohup process before I could logout of the shell.
It still is so. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
