[Gllug] Killing the client but leaving the process running

[Pete Ryland]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 05:26:29PM +0000, Tom Schutzer-Weissmann wrote:
> I used putty to get a terminal on a linux server on my windows machine.
> Now I want to go home and really I ought to log out of windows, but this
> will kill my session and an important backup running in the background.
> 
> Out of curiosity, is there any way to get round this? 

As Richard said, you may be able to get away with simply backgrounding the
process.  It will however receive a HUP (hangup) signal when you close the
terminal which it may either ignore or it may decide to exit.  There's a
program called "nohup" which can be used to prevent a program from receiving
this signal, but, like screen, one must run said program from it.

Pete
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