Long lived processes...

podollb · 03-19-2004, 05:39 PM

How do I start a process on a linux machine and keep it running in the background? I tried opening a shell to a remote box and starting a process with the & but it is destroyed (defunct) when I kill the shell since that was it's parent, but I want to start a process on a machine and then logout and have it continue to run, how do I do that?

hw-tph · 03-19-2004, 06:40 PM

You can use the screen utility. It comes with most distributions and may even be installed already. It's really a very useful tool.

Håkan

Pwnz3r · 03-19-2004, 06:47 PM

Type 'nohup program-name' and that should work.