Mike Burger said: > A viable option, though a lot more overhead (bandwidth, memory, etc) than > using screen. However, neither screen nor VNC will overcome the fact that > if you put a process in the background using &, and then terminate the > shell in which that process was running, you can't get that process back > into the foreground. If you are using screen what would be the purpose of putting the process in the background using "&"? You just run the process as normal and disconnect from the screen session. When you log back in just reconnect to the screen session. -- William Hooper -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list