On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:13:01 +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote:

> An alternative is 'nohup' - if you know that you are gonna run a long 
> task and wish to be able to shutdown your terminal window. e.g:
> 
> $ nohup emerge kdelibs
> $ exit

Shouldn't that be "nohup emerge kdelibs &"?

I've not use nohup for a few years, not since I discovered screen, but
ISTR you need to run in in the background.


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