Thanks all, I used screen succcessfully, although nohup was the word I was originally thinking of I think.
Damn this BSD packaging system is good! screen was not installed, but all i had to do was: su'd to root cd /usr/ports make search name=screen|less <--- at this point scan the output and find screen is in the misc directory, so:- cd misc/screen make install clean (downloads, patches and compiles source, including any dependencies) its done -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
