Steve Martin wrote:
Another and IMO easier way would be to use the package screen. 

screen -S povray
will create a new 'screen' called 'povray' this is just another shell
basically, in here you start the render, or whatever you want, then
press ctrl+a,d to jump away from that screen. 
this can afterwards be resumed(to watch output and other things) by
using screen -r povray
screen is a rather handy lil' prog that i tend to use a lot (either
local or remote computers)

Well, over and out .

> 
> > Also, the reason I did it this way is so my wife or I could use the Win
> > machine while I have something rendering on the Linux machine. Is there a
> > way to let it render in the background, even if I am not currently
> > telnetted/logged into the machine?
> 
> This sounds like a typical use of the "detached" process. To get the
> render to proceed "in the background" (actually, as a separate
> process detached from the controlling terminal), precede your
> POV-Ray invocation with the word "nohup" and follow it with
> " > /dev/null &", as in the following example:
> 
> nohup s-povray +Iinput.pov > /dev/null &
> 
> The "nohup" tells Linux to continue the process even after
> the original login process terminates (i.e. after you log
> off), the "> /dev/null" redirects standard-output to a
> null file so it doesn't clutter up the terminal, and the
> trailing "&" (ampersand) causes the process to detach from
> the terminal from which you start it, running as a
> separate process. Of course, this will remove the "progress
> indication" you were wanting, as it does not output to the
> terminal during this time, but it will run the render in
> the background.
> 
> Hope this helps.

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