30 Oct
2009
30 Oct
'09
4:23 p.m.
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Rick Stevens ricks@nerd.com wrote:
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 &
And there is disown for those times when we forget all of the above.
John