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From: F66204@BARILVM.BITNET (Shaul Wallach)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Background processes on logout
Message-ID: <91051.180110F66204@BARILVM.BITNET>
Date: 20 Feb 91 16:55:16 GMT
Organization: Bar-Ilan University Computing Center, Israel
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   Please excuse this beginner's question. Is there any way for a
user to log out of a UNIX system (say AIX/6000) while leaving
background processes active? My experience seems to be that the
logout command kills all background processes, something I want
to prevent.

Thanks,

Shaul Wallach