[aklug] Re: does job run after logout

There's always "screen" to start a session that's shell independent

--Jason

On 10/28/2010 07:28 PM, Jeff wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:42:38 -0500
> "David J. Weller-Fahy"<dave-lists-aklug@weller-fahy.com> wrote:
>
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>> * Douglas McIntosh<ffdjm@alaska.net> [2010-10-28 21:35 -0500]:
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>>> I want to log into a remote computer, start a lengthy job, log out and
>>> have the remote job run to completion.
>>>
>>> Is this possible?
>>>
>>
>
> Somecomand -&
>
> If a command is terminated by the control operator&, the shell exe-
> cutes the command in the background in a subshell. The shell does not
> wait for the command to finish, and the return status is 0.
>
>

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Received on Thu Oct 28 19:58:26 2010