I guess you want to start 'screen'.
Detach from the 'screen' by Ctrl-A-D.
You can now safely disconnect from that machine
and come back later on with 'screen -r'.

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Frank

shulamitm wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to run a deamon/listener (below is an example) process in a
> 'hidden' session. I don't want to kill the process when closing the
> session.
>
> #!/bin/ksh
> for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
> do
> echo $i
>
> sleep 20
> done
>
> How can I do it?
>
> thanks in advance!
> Shulamit

shulamitm writes:

> Hello,
>
> I need to run a deamon/listener (below is an example) process in a
> 'hidden' session. I don't want to kill the process when closing the
> session.
>
> How can I do it?

man nohup

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On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 01:28:17 -0800 (PST), shulamitm
wrote:

>I need to run a deamon/listener (below is an example) process in a
>'hidden' session. I don't want to kill the process when closing the
>session. How can I do it?

screen, nohup, or my favorite:

dh, the daemon helper

ftp://ftp.isp2dial.com/users/jak/src/dh/


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