On 02/23/17 19:18, Rich Shepard wrote: > A hydrologic model I need to run has an estimated completion time almost 4 > days in the future so I start it in the background by appending '&' to the > command line. > > The problem is when I log out of the system and log in as root that > process (actually, there are 3 processes running, one with status Rl the > others as S (suspended). > > Is there an alternative way to have a program keep running after the user > invoking it logs off?
Traditionally this was done using nohup, but screen is probably a better choice. <http://tecadmin.net/run-command-in-background-on-linux/> (not *the* definitive link, just the first one that seemed to cover what you were asking) galen -- Galen Seitz [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
