Background processes on logout

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.brl.mil
Fri Feb 22 08:35:40 AEST 1991


In article <91051.180110F66204 at BARILVM.BITNET> F66204 at 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.



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