nohup doesn't accept aliases . .

Hey, I was just trying to use nohup this way:
 
nohup cvsbackupthebackup 
 
where cvsbackupthebackup is just an alias - it looks like it does not
correclty interpret the alias (it's an rsync command) -
 
I'd like to nohup and & my command so I can backup cvs, and logout and
go home while it's working!
 
Aaron Kynaston
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