weird Linux question

djgoku djgoku at gmail.com
Wed Aug 25 23:14:16 CDT 2004


On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:35:50 -0500, Brian Densmore
<densmoreb at ctbsonline.com> wrote:
> Sorry I should have told you how to do it even though I've never done it.
>
> To background an app add an '&' after the program name on the command line.
> (this won't help you in the gui world where you need to select items from
> the interface)
>
> To background a currently running process, open a terminal and type bg #
> where number is the process id. It should work on juk, but YMMV.
>
> To prevent a program from ending when you log out launch the app via the nohup
> utility.
> ex: 'nohup juk'
>
> Brian

Could mpg123 be used with say screen? I will try it later tonight if I reboot..

If you are working remotely and you say run mpg123 in screen session
will the music be played on the remote machine?....

Jonathan



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