Re: [BLUG] Multiple Users

I didn't notice the other replies in my inbox until after I sent mine.
You can disregard my previous message.

I've had my head in PuTTY all day, so I was thinking of what would
happen to a job in an interrupted ssh session. My first thought was
running a job in screen and forgetting to detach. I wanted to get more
specifics before trying to help.

The difference between theory and practice? In theory, there is no
difference, but in practice there is.

-Barry

Brian Wheeler wrote:
> I missed the beginning of this thread, so if I'm totally off base, then
> ignore me.
>
> I did a fast user switch from gnome and while my audio did stop, all of
> the other processes running doing network things continued as normal.
>
> Why would normal processes stop "in theory" when switching users?
> That's what a multiuser system is for :)
>
> Brian
>
> On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 13:48 -0400, Barry Schatz wrote:
>
>> In theory no, in practice maybe. how are you logged in for each user and
>> how are you switching users?
>>
>> Steve Beckley wrote:
>>
>>> If I have something downloading as one user, if I switch users without
>>> logging out will that data continue to download on the other user account?
>>>
>>> -Steve B.
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