On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 13:49 -0600, Peter Horst wrote: > Ah, thank you. Is there a way to "fake" being logged in on the console? > I would like to leave this particular machine sitting in the closet and > only ever login via ssh.... First, sorry if this is double posted. I didn't see my first post come through the list. Anyway, to try and answer your question. You can try running everything within a screen session. 1) Start screen by typing screen on the command line 2) execute what you want to keep running 3) detach from the screen session by doing <CTRL>-A, then D 4) exit from your shell session. To re-attach to that screen session, log back into the system and type screen -r HTH, -- Doug Registered Linux User #285548 (http://counter.li.org) ---------------------------------------- Random Thought: "To IBM, 'open' means there is a modicum of interoperability among some of their equipment." -- Harv Masterson
