I've found screen to be an extremely useful tool for things like this. screen gives you the ability to start multiple virtual terminals within a screen session. You can then detach from the entire screen process, leaving it running. You can reattach to the session later from elsewhere. It is even possible to detach the session without being on the session. screen is a GNU tool, so if your distro doesn't have it, you can get it from your local GNU mirror. HTH, Eric On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 09:34:51AM -0600, Simeon Johnston wrote: > I have been wondering about something lately and can't figure it out. > How do I background a process, say a kernel compile, so I don't have to > sit there and watch it i.e. log in - start process - log out - log in > later - find process done and everyones happy. > > How is this done? > > sim > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >