[geeks] Background process

[Brian Hechinger]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 06:25:08PM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
> I have a C proggy that I wrote, and I want to be able to run it on my
> linux machine, and have it still running even if my terminal gets
> disconnected.  Cron or at would launch it the way I want it launched, but
> it seems to me that there should be an easier way to launch such a
> program.  Any comments?  Tips for Solaris would also be helpful, if
> solaris differs from linux.

did you try nohup?  doesn't have to be a C proggy, can be a shell script, or
anything at all for that matter.

-brian