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

[Brock Organ <borgan redhat com>]

% nohup netscape &

is designed to allow your terminal to exit without killing your bg job ...
:)

brock

On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, John Summerfield wrote:

> > 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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