[ale] Background process

[maltzen at mm.com (Gary Maltzen)]

In addition to the 'nohup' command, you should check out the 'screen'
command which lets you start sessions where you can disconnect and
reconnect...

Also, ISTR there was also a way to make a prog a child of init by doing
something like

   ( prog & ) &

Eric Brubakken asked...
> OK,  dumb question for the day...
>
> How would I start a program that would run as a background process?  So
that
> when I terminate my session the process continues?
>
> I remember something like ./myprogram& or something like that..



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