From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28741 invoked from network); 25 Oct 1999 18:36:44 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 25 Oct 1999 18:36:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 15766 invoked by alias); 25 Oct 1999 18:36:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 2694 Received: (qmail 15759 invoked from network); 25 Oct 1999 18:36:24 -0000 Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:36:13 -0400 From: Clint Adams To: Roland Jesse Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: logout and nohup Message-ID: <19991025143613.A29518@dman.com> References: <0v904rmibk.fsf@cs.uni-magdeburg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <0v904rmibk.fsf@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>; from jesse@prinz-atm.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De on Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 08:00:31PM +0200 > nohup /usr/local/etc/kehraus 2> /dev/null & No, nohup is supposed to keep the process running in the background AFTER you log out. What this does is place nohup in the job table. You can get around this in various ways, but the easiest is to backrgound it with &| instead of & .