Background processes on logout

Bob Daniel rad at genco.bungi.com
Tue Feb 26 04:38:28 AEST 1991


In article <91051.180110F66204 at BARILVM.BITNET> F66204 at BARILVM.BITNET (Shaul Wallach) writes:
>
>   Please excuse this beginner's question. Is there any way for a
>user to log out of a UNIX system (say AIX/6000) while leaving
>background processes active? My experience seems to be that the
>logout command kills all background processes, something I want
>to prevent.

Use 'nohup' (no hangup) before starting up the process.  The process will 
continue after logging off.  There are limitations.  Check your manual on
this command.  This is basically what you want though.



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