[sclug] Leave a process running after logging out?

[Dickon Hood]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 20:39:02 +0000, Simon Heywood wrote:
: On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 at 18:39:20 +0000, Sapan Ganguly wrote:
: > I am forever starting commands in a bash shell that take longer than I
: > expect, is there a way to background or pause a task that is already
: > in the foreground AND log off and go home (but still see the results
: > when I log on again in the morning)?  Sometimes I forget to use things
: > like 'screen', 'nohup' etc.  If I use Ctrl-Z the process is still
: > killed when I log off.

: I'm fairly sure that if you forget to run screen, you're stuffed.
: Whenever I login to some remote machine I run 'screen -RD' just in case.

Try screen -x; it's more fun...

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