On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 00:11:23 +1000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Massey) wrote: >> Just running it in the background might work, eg: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ program & > [1] 2539 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ exit
You probably want nohup in there as well: $ nohup program & > > Really depends on the nature of the program you want to run. I've got > a Perl ircbot, and a couple of shell scripts that work this way. Might > be better to set it up as an 'at' or 'cron' job, depending on what you > want to do. 'at' is anothery: $ at now + 1 minute <<! program ! $ Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
