[ale] Background process

Gary Maltzen maltzen at mm.com
Wed Sep 20 19:56:40 EDT 2000


In addition to the 'nohup' command, you should check out the 'screen'
command which lets you start sessions where you can disconnect and
reconnect...

Also, ISTR there was also a way to make a prog a child of init by doing
something like

   ( prog & ) &

Eric Brubakken asked...
> OK,  dumb question for the day...
>
> How would I start a program that would run as a background process?  So
that
> when I terminate my session the process continues?
>
> I remember something like ./myprogram& or something like that..



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