[svlug] nohup-ing a running process

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Rufoo wrote:
> several times I miss out on running a command using
> nohup and I had to restart it in order to keep it
> running after I quit the shell. Is there a way to
> nohup a process after it is started? Thanks.

Use the 'disown' command (assuming bash is your shell).  It's a normal
job control function, so something like this:

$ ./foo &
# ....
$ ./bar &
# crap, i wanted foo nohup'ed!
$ disown %1

'disown' without any parameters will disown the last command backgrounded.

	-brian

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