Starting program with terminal

TazLinux · 02-25-2003, 10:33 PM

I know how to start a program with the terminal, but when I press ctrl-c to get prompt back the program kills.

How do I open a prog with the terminal and get back to prompt, without the program shutting down.

Allen614 · 02-25-2003, 10:52 PM

do "info nohup" and see if that's what you're looking for.

TazLinux · 02-25-2003, 10:55 PM

I did that but no avail.

How is this done?

Allen614 · 02-25-2003, 11:14 PM

OK,how about "programname &"

TazLinux · 02-25-2003, 11:27 PM

Thankyou Allen!!

Crashed_Again · 02-25-2003, 11:31 PM

Also you can do:

jobs

This will tell you what jobs are running in the background. If you want to bring them back to the foreground you can do:

fg %1

where 1 is the job number given by the jobs command. Maybe this is a little too much info but what the hell.

TazLinux · 02-26-2003, 12:43 AM

Ahhhh what the hell, you can't ever know to much about linux.

Thanks guys, you were a great help.

xYko · 02-26-2003, 01:42 AM

You can also use CTRL+Z if you started a program without the ampersand, however that will only suspend it and not put it in the background. Type bg after you suspend to resume the program in the background.

michaelk · 02-26-2003, 07:16 AM

If close the xterm with the programing running in the background it will terminate the program. You can always open up another terminal or switch consoles if not running x.