[Nottingham] running processes logged out...

[Robert Postill]

David Wolfson wrote:

>First off, cheers for a good talk last night Rob, despite the mushy peas!  
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I must apologise profusely, I may never eat before a LUG meet ever again.

>You'll be gald to know that my automated backup sent me the daily e-mail to say it hadn't worked as usual this morning.  I think I might send them to the boss instead, then he might do something about it...
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There's nothing like annoying someone to get a result, keep nagging, 
find alternative/creative ways of nagging if you're not getting much 
joy.  I had a boss who thought I was joking when I  moaned about 
backups.  After a while my nagging wore him down.

>After post-talk pub discusions, I've found 'sudo' and will give it a go time allowing.
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One of the great pieces of UNIX.

>  The other thing you told me about was something to let users processes continue to run once they'd logged out.  I thought you said it was called 'nohub'
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Sorry, I may have slurred that one a bit :)
Robert.