Running a command in background?

[Aaron Howell]

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
> 
> 
> 
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