On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 07:45:25PM -0300, Patrick Boutilier wrote: > >I heard that you can do something like this with NOHUP, but my process > >is running > Try running the tar in a "screen" . > man screen This has huge advantages over using bg or nohup, since you can reattach to it later -- even from somewhere else. But unfortunately, you have to do this *first* -- you can't move it after you've started. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 76 degrees Fahrenheit.
