[Gllug] Killing the client but leaving the process running

[David Irvine]

On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 10:16, Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> And verily, didst Tom Schutzer-Weissmann announce to the hordes:
> > 
> > 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? 
> 
> Use screen
> Multiple terminals in one session that you can detatch from the controlling
> terminal, and then re-attach to another controlling termninal leaving the
> jobs running...

Screen is very cool, but if its not available for some reason, you can
also use nohup, the job will keep running, output is directed to a file
which you can tail etc, but you cannot 'reattach' but its fine for
things like backups.

Cheers

David


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