>>>>> "Erik" == Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Erik> nohup, I think you can also set up the shell not to kill Erik> children when it exits (start command in background (append Erik> & at the end of command line) or background it while it Erik> works, usually ctrl-z to stop it, bg to make it continue in Erik> background) zsh (probably bash too, but not sure) also has a detach command. So you can detach a shell job from the shell. Once you detach a process you can't put use the fg or bg commands on it anymore. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>