[olug] Keep process running after closing terminal

[Thomas Roehr]

To ensure it's not killed, you need to use the nohup command before the 
example below.

Most shells will send a SIGHUP signal to all child process when the 
shell exits. Depending on
which shell and what options you have enabled, the child may or may not 
ignore or delay the SIGHUP signal.

Using nohup will ensure that the process continues.

Tom

Will Langford wrote:

>Screen is your best bet.
>
>Following that,
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>/path/command 1>/dev/null 2>&1 < /dev/null &
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>This will put the command in the background and fix the 3 standard
>pipes so that when you disconnect the terminal (close the xterm, ssh
>session, what have you), the process goes on living.
>
>-Will
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>On 4/20/05, Trent Melcher <trent at wispair.net> wrote:
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>>You may have to run it with nohup,  if your process is prone to hangups, it
>>will die when you log out of a terminal even with the & at the end.
>>
>>Trent
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Jake
>>Churchill
>>Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:26 PM
>>To: Omaha Linux User Group; eric.maillist at gmail.com
>>Subject: Re: [olug] Keep process running after closing terminal
>>
>>Put a & after the command.  For example, if you want to run updatedb which
>>takes about 8 minutes on my computer, type updatedb&.  It will output the
>>PID and you can go about your business.
>>
>>On Apr 19, 2005, at 11:17 PM, Eric P wrote:
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>>>I'm sure this is basic as hell.
>>>
>>>I want to log onto one of my computers on the LAN, run a console based
>>>program on it, and log off with the console based program still
>>>running (i.e., not close out when the terminal window is closed).
>>>
>>>How is this done?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Eric Pierce
>>>
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