On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Matthew Saltzman wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 10:35 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >>> Screen is not an option if you want to set up a long-running job and log >>> out. >> >> Why not? That's the first thing I think of when I want to do just that. > > I concur. That is one of the main reasons "screen" was created in the > first place. > > There's also nohup. Just make sure you background the command as well: > > nohup command & And there is disown for those times when we forget all of the above. John -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines