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 &
>    Same with this one.
>    lynx -dump some_50M_file_on_the_net > my_file &
> 
>    So how can I keep something running after I log out?

Assuming you have no need to reattach to your terminal, use the standard
"nohup" command.

man nohup

-- 
Michael