[Wien] running wien2k_05 as a background process

[buero at luitz.at]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Rebecca Nicholls wrote:

> I am having trouble running WIEN2k_05 as a background process,
> and I was wondering if anyone else has come across this?
> I can run run_lapw fine as long as I don't log out.  This is
> not a problem I had with the previous versions.

Some shells terminate all child processes when you exit. In such a 
case you should use the "nohup" command, like e.g.

nohup run_lapw &

Then it's no problem to log out afterwards, the job will continue to run. 
However all standard output will thereafter be sent to /dev/null and thus 
is no more accessible. Therefor I rather recommend submitting your job to 
a "batch" or "at" queue.

Best
   Joachim

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