Are you thinking of "nohup"? Try "man nohup" for brief explanation or
"info nohup" for slightly more elaboration. Basically, you incant:
nohup COMMAND ARGS &
and any tty output goes to 'nohup.out'.
pete
> Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 11:28:00 -0500
> From: Barton Hodges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: command to keep job running after logout?
>
> I seem to have forgotten what the command
> was to keep a job running even after I log
> out of the console... can anyone help?
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