Subject: RE: Programs and logging off
To: Jeremy C. Reed <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Sporleder, Matthew \(CCI-Atlanta\) <Matthew.Sporleder@cox.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/31/2002 14:16:06
If you setup an "at" command or a cron job, would you have to be logged =
on at all for the command to be executing?

-Matthew Sporleder
    =A4 SDC System Tech =A4



-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy C. Reed [mailto:reed@reedmedia.net]
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 2:03 PM
To: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: Programs and logging off


> > Anyways, I use nohup(1). (But you can't "regain control of the =
program
> > later".)
>
> 'fg %<job_number>' can regain control of most (assuming ksh or csh.)

But what is the job number if the shell is closed and you log off?

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/