I am a new bird in using linux and constantly met with problems easy or hard. So far I am faced with an embarrassing issue that when I log on to other computers to run jobs, I can not shut my computer down before the job is finished. That obviously should not be the case since it would cause so much convenience to the users. Please help me out if you know how to remove this problem. Thanks a lot,

I don't do this very often but I'm pretty sure that you'd do two things: - run the process in the background by putting a '&' after it when you start it, for example: myjob & - use the 'nohup' command when you start the process to tell it to keep running after you log out. 'nohup' means 'no hangup', which probably originated during 'dialup' days: nohup myjob & Give that a shot.

Also jobs that are not attached to a terminal session will continue. If you used at or cron to initiate a job not only would it continue after you disconnect but the system will mail you the output of the job.

You may also want to look at "screen". It can create a virtual console which you can detatch from and reatatch to even after logging out. eg: $ screen setiathome starts seti in a new screen session. Then press Ctrl&A then D to detach from it. You can now log off etc. $ screen -ls will list all sessions running with a PID $ screen -r PID will reattach you to it. You can even reattach from another computer using ssh/telnet etc.