log off with process running

[Augusto Jun Devegili]

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.