[SOLVED] OT Linux question - running a process in background

[Michael Yep]

disown -a worked  thanks

Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 17:39 -0500, Michael Yep wrote:
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>>Hello
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>>This is a general Linux question:
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>>I have a large tar operation i started via a SSH terminal
>>Can I some how logoff / disconnect and not kill that process ?
>>In the past i have hit ctrl Z to send it to the background, but when I 
>>logout, all my jobs terminate
>>I heard that you can do something like this with NOHUP, but my process 
>>is running
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>If you're using bash, try "disown -a" before logging off.
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>Paul.
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