At 2:16 PM +0100 10/12/06, Andy Green wrote: >Tony Nelson wrote: > >> Does backgrounding a task have the same effect? That is, would: >> >> wget -b -c http://blah.blah.com & >> >> do as well? I didn't see anything relevent in man bash. > >AIUI the task survives the loss of the ssh session, what kills it is the >next time it tries to print something it gets a nasty signal along the >lines of "don't know what you think you are printing to, but it isn't >there any more". So from this wobbly asertion of half-knowlege, I guess >if wget never prints anything again after you start it, it should >complete okay using & as you suggest. OK, I get it, thanks. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
