You could do this: nohup $command But I always usea trick I find works with bash, so when your in a bash shell do this:
#start another bash shell bash #start your background job command & #exit the subshell exit #exit your ssh connection exit That should work. - D On 1 Sep 2005 at 17:33, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I occasionally log into a machine remotely and start a process in the > background: > > command & > > However, when I log out of the machine, the ssh process on my local > machine blocks. I guess that it is becuase the remote still has jobs > running. Is there a way to get it start the process in the background > and then detach from the shell? I have already tried this: > > exec command & > > However, it results in the same behavior. It is really a bit annoying > to have to kill the ssh process on my end to terminate the connection. > I really should be able to do something that lets me logout normally. > > -Roberto > > -- > Roberto C. Sanchez > http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
