From: Guillaume Marcais Date: 2004-02-03T21:26:41+09:00 Subject: Re: try screen (was: Re: shell scripts in background (with &) - why would they stop?) I guess I can add that it is a normal behavior. It is not specific to Ruby in anyway but to UNIX. When the ssh session ends, the controlling tty of your process disappear and your process gets a SIGHUP, for which the default behavior is to terminate the process. Guillaume. Le 3 f�vr. 04, � 00:11, Thomas Adam a �crit : > --- Ryan Dlugosz wrote: > >> On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 20:12, Zach Dennis wrote: >>>> nohup ./processFiles.rb& >>>> exit > > ./somefile.rb & > disown %1 && logout > > Will achieve the same thing. > > -- Thomas Adam > > ===== > "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net > "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net > > " We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish > you for all of them at once when you get better. The > experience will probably kill you. :)" > > -- Benjamin A. Okopnik (Linux Gazette Technical Editor) > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > BT Yahoo! Broadband - Free modem offer, sign up online today and save > �80 http://btyahoo.yahoo.co.uk >