Hi, Thank you. I didn't know about nohup. It will ease my life a lot. Teddy, orasnita at home.ro ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Howell" <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 6:18 AM Subject: Re: Running a command in background? > 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 | | > | | | > | | + > | | / > | | / > | | / > | |/ > +----------------------------------------------------------+ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
