Nohup

NOHUP(1) - General Commands Manual

Signal, Csh, Nohup

NOHUP(1) - General Commands Manual # NOHUP(1) - General Commands Manual NAME # nohup - invoke a command immune to hangups SYNOPSIS # nohup utility [arg …] DESCRIPTION # The nohup command allows the specified utility to be protected from termination if the user should become logged out (for example, due to a modem line or TCP/IP connection being dropped). To do this, nohup sets the SIGHUP signal(3) (“terminal line hangup”) to be ignored, then executes utility along with any arguments. ...