Telnet process

[njm137]

I have linux on an embedded processor...

# uname -a
Linux ECB 2.4.22-uc0 #1 Fri Aug 18 13:12:46 PDT 2006 armv5b unknown

And when I telnet as root into the machine and run a shell script (that constantly appends data to a file)

# /blah/runscript &

It will run until i log out....and then the process will terminate!!!
If I do this on a normal FC5 installation, the script will continue to run.

What is causing my script to stop??
Thanks

[ph34r]

man nohup

[njm137]

That'd be great if i had that on my filesystem. However, these are out of box units, and i am not allowed to modify any files.
:(