log off with process running

[Doug Hardie]

On Mar 25, 2004, at 17:27, Augusto Jun Devegili wrote:

> nohup is a possible solution; check its man page.
>
> Example:
>
> $ nohup wget http://server/big.iso &
>
> On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 05:22, Robert Storey wrote:
>> I want to log off and hang up the modem. The question is, how to do 
>> so? With the
>> above process running, I can't even get back to the command line to 
>> type "exit"
>> (and wouldn't typing "exit" kill any process I'm running?). Ditto if 
>> I hit
>> ctrl-c. I suppose I could just hang up the modem, but that's not 
>> elegant.

I use nohup for that all the time.  Works fine.