In a bourne-type shell you could use: $ nohup [your_cmd] >[your_log_file] 2>&1 &
Then you should be able to safely disconnect your terminal. Cheers, -ar On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:08 AM, bricklen <brick...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Robert Burgholzer <rburg...@vt.edu> > wrote: > > If anyone has any suggestions as to how to run the trace via a nohup > command > > or something, that would be cool, since then I could let it run in the > > background. > > If you have "screen" installed, maybe try it in a screen session. > > -- > Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin >