On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 08:26:49AM -0500, Chris Frederick wrote: > I'm wondering how I can run a program from a telnet/ssh session and > still have it running after I log off the session. > > e.g. When I run the following command, it stops as soon as I log out. > tree -d /usr > junk & I think that you just need to redirect input, so the input stream doesn't get cutoff when you logout. Also you probably need to redirect standard error as well. With {t}csh, try: tree -d /usr >& junk </dev/null & I'll let someone else answer it for bash. -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org