Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 10:35 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Screen is not an option if you want to set up a long-running job and log out.
Why not? That's the first thing I think of when I want to do just that.
I concur. That is one of the main reasons "screen" was created in the first place.
There's also nohup. Just make sure you background the command as well:
nohup command &
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