[buug] nohup

johnd john at jjdev.com
Tue Aug 26 13:46:07 PDT 2003


I've noticed if I run a program in the background then log out it stays running
for a while then seems to arbitrarily stop. 

If I run it with nohup then it seems to stay running.

why?  

I happen to be running a app server called Zope.  It is a program written in
python.  I'm using linux 2.4.21.


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