On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 12:05:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > 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.
I know that, but the last time I used it, i needed to background the nohup process before I could logout of the shell. -- Neil Bothwick Frog philosophy: Time's fun when you're having flies.
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