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[Jerry Feldman]

Can you question them why they did that?
Generally a background job will be killed when you log out. Sometimes 
you can trick the system by doing a double fork. 
They might also have software to prevent user processes from running 
too long. 
On 9 Oct 2001, at 13:56, dan moylan wrote:

> unfortunately the bums have shut down at as well.
> 
> btw, do background jobs stay running after one logs out?  perhaps
> i could run a script with a sleep loop?  would that work?

Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Associate Director
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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