Running a command in background?

[Octavian Rasnita]

Hi,

Thank you.
I didn't know about nohup.
It will ease my life a lot.


Teddy,
orasnita at home.ro

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Howell" <aaron at kitten.net.au>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 6:18 AM
Subject: Re: Running a command in background?


> 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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