Ok, nomatter what i google for this i just cant think of a syntactically proper way of describing what i mean that google understands.

What i was to do is be able to ssh into my system, issue a command or activity, and logout with the command continuing in my absence, a la a parted operation or a text indexing command or nmap or a wget download.

I know that some commands have a deamon mode, but thats not really what im looking for, I'm looking for something universal

I was thinking fg bg combinations but i dont know if this just backgrounds the process on that console or on the system completly

Anyway, i hope someone has a quick answer as it would be a great help.

G

screen may help.

For more info, 'man screen' or google for 'screen'

Nothing actually to do with ssh at all... Just check out screen or nohup.

thanks guys, had never even heard of screen, great help.

not a great name to find via google, that's for sure...they might as well have called it "computer" or "help"