Re: [cobalt-users] Auto-running programs

[Mat Kovach <mkovach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 06:07:38PM -0800, Alan Stanley wrote:
: What I want to know is if there a linux command/program available that will
: run my IRC client continuously whether I'm "at the helm" or not? To take it
: one step further, something that would also have the ability to let me kill
: the program at a moment's notice? As I said, I have to telnet in to access
: my server and as soon as I kill the session, the program is killed as well.

Take a look at a package called screen, I think it will allow you to do 
what you want.

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Mat Kovach                                      mkovach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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