At 02:31 AM 4/4/00, you wrote:
>I'm running Distributed.net's number cruncher and place it into the
>background with the & at the end of the command and all has worked
>well. The problem is when I leave the keyboard I want to log off for
>security and come back sometime later and bring the process to the
>foreground again. When I type Jobs -l no jobs show up. I can see the
>process running when I "ps -ax". What am I missing here? I've read
>some fine material, but have not found my answer yet.
If you simply want the process to continue after you logout, you can try nohup. You'll still not ever be able to foreground the process, but it won't die when you log out. When you log back in, you can simply check the output of the process by looking in nohup.out.
STAN
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