[geeks] Background process

[Ken Hansen]

Ooh, Ooh! I know this one: 

    man nohup

Use like this:

    nohup ./setiathome -graphics &

Then the process will ignore the "hup" signal when you log out...

Ken

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "joshua d boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 6:25 PM
Subject: [geeks] Background process


> I have a C proggy that I wrote, and I want to be able to run it on my
> linux machine, and have it still running even if my terminal gets
> disconnected.  Cron or at would launch it the way I want it launched, but
> it seems to me that there should be an easier way to launch such a
> program.  Any comments?  Tips for Solaris would also be helpful, if
> solaris differs from linux.



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