Re: Hey, background process terminate with parent process !?

[John Summerfield <summer os2 ami com au>]

> In a gnome-terminal:
> > [lct tealc lct]$ netscape&
> > [1] 2775
> > [lct tealc lct]$ 
> 
> When I close gnome-terminal... bye, bye netscape.
> Never seen that on RH 7.0.
> 
> Another consequence of using a 2.4 kernel ?

I think that's always happened to me; certainly for a long time.

This should defeat it though:
(netscape&)

This starts another shell.

Or
netscape&
disown

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