On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Chris Rae wrote:
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> background process while logged out. If I log in (via telnet), start a
> process, hit CTRL-Z and type "logout", I get the message "there are stopped
> jobs" and it won't let me log out until I've killed them. However, if I just
You merely need to put the job in the background from the beginning. This
is done by putting the character '&' as the last item in the <process>.
You should not do this with a process that writes to stdout or stderr.
Gordon A. Gallup Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
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