On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 08:26:49AM -0500, Chris Frederick wrote:
> I'm wondering how I can run a program from a telnet/ssh session and
> still have it running after I log off the session.
>
> e.g. When I run the following command, it stops as soon as I log out.
> tree -d /usr > junk &
I think that you just need to redirect input, so the input stream
doesn't get cutoff when you logout. Also you probably need to
redirect standard error as well. With {t}csh, try:
tree -d /usr >& junk </dev/null &
I'll let someone else answer it for bash.
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