Running a command in background?

[Octavian Rasnita]

Oh, this make me put another question.
After I type logout, sometimes it tells me "There are stopped jobs."
What does this mean?
I thought it  is just a simple kind of goodbye message.

Thanks.
Teddy,
orasnita at home.ro

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Myrow" <myrow at eskimo.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 1:03 AM
Subject: Re: Running a command in background?


> I know that on non-Linux systems, if you try to exit while you have a
> running job in the background, you get a warning saying "you have running
> jobs."  If you try to exit again, the job is killed.  That's why it's a
> good idea to use nohup on those systems, and I figure it can't hurt on
> Linux.  By non-Linux, I mean other Unix variants like Solaris.
> 
> 
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