do it like this. nohup commandname options & so if to rebuild your index you had to do "rebuild -i" it would become nohup rebuild -i & The nohup stops the command being killed at logout, and the & sign means run in background. Regards Aaron On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 10:59:43AM +0300, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to log on Linux on a remote computer, to run a command that takes a > long times until it finishes, and I want to automaticly log off and let the > command running in background. > > Please tell me what should I do? > > I understand that if I use the first command then a ; then the logout > command they are both executed, but I want to be sure that the first command > is not stopped after I close the connection. > > I need this for indexing a search engine. > > Thank you. > > > Teddy, > orasnita at home.ro > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- +----------------------------------------------------------+ / |\ _,,,---,,_ /| / /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ / | / |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' / | / '---''(_/--' `-'\_) / | +----------------------------------------------------------+ | | Aaron Howell Kitten Internet | | | aaron at kitten.net.au Internet consultancy, | | | Phone: +61-417-625550 System administration, | | | fax: +61-7-36010099 system design/integration. | | | icq: 6715521 http://www.kitten.net.au | | | | | | | + | | / | | / | | / | |/ +----------------------------------------------------------+
