HELP: running process in bg and logout and persist... woes :S

**kevingpo** · 09-07-2005

Does anyone know how to run a GUI X app remotely in background - that persists even when logged out?

Basically, I ssh into university to run my X program am developing for my project. However I need to leave it running for over 24 hours, maybe days on end preferably. I left it, however it auto-loggs out after 6 hours of idle keyboard input (or something like that).

I remember something about running a process (can it be X too?) in background, and then log out, and it's still running...

**lakerdonald** · 09-07-2005

You might want to investigate GNU Screen.

**kevingpo** · 11-07-2005

Screen is very good. Thanks for the advice.

**sharkyro** · 11-07-2005

Alternatively you can run an application from terminal and add '&' at the end.

Example (this is how I download large files):

Code:

wget <link> &

The process will be run in background until stopped (or until if finishes) even if you log out.

**spoon!** · 11-07-2005

In bash,

Code:

nohup <command> &

will run a command in the background that doesn't get stopped by the SIGHUP from when you log out.

**kevingpo** · 11-08-2005

Ah, that also works.. plus no need to install screen. Excellent!

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