close terminal mean close background process?
 

Dear frens,

In moving a process to background. What i di was to type bg or Ctrl+z from the terminal.
But when i closed the terminal that also terminates the background process. How to I ensure that the background process are not terminated even after i close the terminal?
thanks

If you kill a process, all it's child processes should die too, that's the rule. So if you start a program (fore- or background) from a terminal, it becomes the child of that terminal and when you close the terminal, it's process dies and all the childs as well.

Easy solution: use a program called screen which enables you to run programs, detach them, log out of the whole machine if you like and when you return, just re-attach the session. Probably just what you're asking, right?

Thanks a lot friend!

Use jobs to see bg processes.
Use disown to make child process free.

See more at Process detaching in linux

Just use nohup

nohup myprog &

nohup redirects all the output to a new file named nohup.out. if you are running something big, it can get nasty

easiest i think is to use disown...

eg when i want to play an open GL game i need to change window manager and i do it like this
the first command runs metactity as a background process, (sitll visible in jobs) but the second detatches it totally from the xterm i use