[PLUG] A Simple Question

[rob at axpr.net]

> This is a simple question, but I don't know how to pose it to Google to
> return the answer I'm looking for.  When I start a program from a
> terminal window, is there a way to for the program (like Evolution or
> Gaim) to continue to run normaly but return the prompt at th terminal
> window so i can execute other commands?  My main reason for asking is,
> sometimes I log into my computer via ssh and wish to run various
> applications at the same time remotely but need to log in using seperate
> clients to achieve this goal.

In addition to the & others suggested...

If you want to kill the output, run 'nohup
/path/to/program/you/are/running' ... this runs it in the background with
the output sent to nohup.out (by default).

Rob