From: Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@...>
Date: 2004-02-06T01:41:42+09:00
Subject: Re: shell scripts in background (with &) - why would they stop?

 --- Austin Ziegler <austin@halostatue.ca> wrote: 

> > How would I get it to keep running (like my regular /bin/sh shell
> > scripts) after I log out?
> 
> nohup ./processFiles.rb &

or:

disown $(jobs -p) && logout

or:

disown %1 && logout

Both'll work under Bash :)

-- Thomas Adam

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