Backgrounding processes

Charles Krug charles@pentek.com
Tue Jun 18 10:04:00 GMT 2002


On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 11:36:34AM -0400, David J. Wilson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Seems like it's no longer possible to properly background a process.  What I mean is, in the past I could run something like fetchmail (i.e. fetchmail -d 900), exit my shell, and it would keep running.  Now when I run fetchmail in such a manner, if I try and exit the shell it hangs, and when I forcefully close the window, fetchmail goes along with it.  Same thing happens with other programs.  I know for certain that it used to work.

I'm doing exactly that with fetchmail, under Win95.  I've had no
problems with it yet.


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