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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Background processes on logout
Message-ID: <15282@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 21 Feb 91 21:35:40 GMT
References: <91051.180110F66204@BARILVM.BITNET>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <91051.180110F66204@BARILVM.BITNET> F66204@BARILVM.BITNET (Shaul Wallach) writes:
-   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.

Look up "nohup" in the user's manual.