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From: kent@HUMU.NOSC.MIL (Kent K. Kuriyama)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Creating user processes that continue after logout
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Date: 20 Mar 89 21:34:48 GMT
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In article <8903152255.AA16493@humu.nosc.mil> I described a 
problem in which when I entered:

  % background_prog &

My program gets blown away when I log out of the display manager.

I received the advice concerning my problem:

>Date: Fri, 17 Mar 89 18:08:37 est
>From: twv@rayssdap1.RAY.COM (Vrankar)
>Message-Id: <8903172308.AA00621@rayssdap1.RAY.COM>
>To: kent
>Subject: continue after logout
>
>If you are running from a Bourne shell (/bin/sh), you'll need to do:
>% nohup background_prog &
>The C shell (/bin/csh) is supposed to do this automatically.
>
>If this doesn't get you where you want to go, slime it:
>% /com/crp -on $NODEID -me -cps /com/sh '/bin/sh -c background_prog'
>That ought to run until it is through; if it never finishes, it'll
>run as long as the node doesn't crash.
>                                           twv@rayssdap10


Although he says that /bin/csh is supposed to do the 'nohup' 
automatically I had to explicitly specify it.  Works great!  
Thanks to all of you that responded.


Kent Kuriyama
Naval Ocean Systems Center
Hawaii Laboratory
kent@nosc.mil