On Wednesday 06 December 2006 11:28, Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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 &"?
No, because nohup launches emerge in the background and immediately returns > I've not use nohup for a few years, not since I discovered screen, > but ISTR you need to run in in the background. nohup was designed to do things like run a process overnight and still allow the user to logout from the shell that launched it, without killing the nohup-ed process. stdout goes to a file in case you want to review it later. But nohup doesn't give you a way to reconnect the backgrounded process or even to see it's output. You kinda just leave it to run till it doesn't show up in ps anymore alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
