[gmx-users] General Questions abdout gromacs

[Erik Lindahl]

>
> I used the following command:
> mdrun -nive 0 -v -s ............ ener.edr &
> and then I closed the x window I used and re opened it again. I  
> tried to see what programs are running in the cluster using top but  
> I didn't find the mdrun running.
>
> did I used the right command? should there be a space between  
> ".edr" and "&"?
> any suggestion??
>

If you kill the shell you kill all background programs too, unless  
you've detached them. How to do that depends on your shell, so check  
the standard csh/ksh/bash/zsh documentation.

Cheers,

Erik

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Erik Lindahl  <lindahl at sbc.su.se>
Assistant Professor, Stockholm Bioinformatics Center
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