Chris Frederick writes: > 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 & > Same with this one. > lynx -dump some_50M_file_on_the_net > my_file & > Depends on which shell you're using. If you use the csh or tcsh, these programs would keep running by default. For bash, you need to use "nohup" [no hangup]. Check the man page and look for nohup. R