This means you put a job into the background without using nohup. Or, you hit ctrl-z to suspend a job and drop to the shell and neer resumed it. Use the command "fg" to bring the stopped job into the foreground. Regards Aaron On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 07:16:56AM +0300, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > Oh, this make me put another question. > After I type logout, sometimes it tells me "There are stopped jobs." > What does this mean? > I thought it is just a simple kind of goodbye message. > > Thanks. > Teddy, > orasnita at home.ro > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adam Myrow" <myrow at eskimo.com> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 1:03 AM > Subject: Re: Running a command in background? > > > > I know that on non-Linux systems, if you try to exit while you have a > > running job in the background, you get a warning saying "you have running > > jobs." If you try to exit again, the job is killed. That's why it's a > > good idea to use nohup on those systems, and I figure it can't hurt on > > Linux. By non-Linux, I mean other Unix variants like Solaris. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 | | | | | | | + | | / | | / | | / | |/ +----------------------------------------------------------+
