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From: ndh@stl.stc.co.uk (Neale D Hind )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Background processes on logout
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Date: 21 Feb 91 09:25:58 GMT
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In the referenced article 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.

On our System V system we use "nohup command &".  If you logout and
then log back in and "ps -fu<logname>" the process is running with
parent process UID of 1.


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