You could use screen. I use this for leaving consoles running when I want ot logout. Tom On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:29:24AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > I'm trying to start up btdownloads from a remote terminal and then > fork them into background so I can logout and leave the torrents > going. I tried both btdownloadcurses and btdownloadheadless by > starting normally, seeing that my downloads are all complete but wanna > leve up for uploading. I then ctrl-z to get my shell and then I type > 'bg' to background the torrent. The problem is, doing a 'jobs' always > shows the process as stopped. the bg command apparently isn't getting > the process to resume running.; I also can't it to work with the '&' > sign after the command either. > > The only way I can see doing this is to launch these torrents with > consols oat home and just leave them open for the day. Is that my > only choice? > > -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://ld.net/?holmesgrown > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
