: bash command help - nohup

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 10:35 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> Screen is not an option if you want to set up a long-running job and log
> out. 

Why not?  That's the first thing I think of when I want to do just that.

'at' also works to start a job not connected to a terminal.
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                Matthew Saltzman

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