On Saturday 06 Aug 2005 01:04, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > John Bowden wrote: > > Just a quick question. I have been having trouble setting up my monitor > > resolution, (got it at a usable setting but not the way I want it). I am > > downloading some Debian distro's as I have some Sparc Stations arriving > > soon for a futore project. If I log out after tinkering with the screen > > and monitor settings will it stop the download that's in progress? > > Normaly, when you log out, all your processes are stopped, so > downloading would stop. One way around this is to start the downloads > from a VT instead of X. I like using wget for this. It will also let you > restart interupted downloads, and other nice features. > > You can also use nohup to start programs that are not killed when you > log out... > > Mikkel Thanks I thought so. I'm using Kbearftp so I think I will leave it running and get some sleep, and have a fiddle with my monitor settings tomorrow.
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