Newbie (Send PID to background problem)
Dear mates,
I really need your help for now ... I installed Ubuntu Warty release last week - and everything works fine so far ... however I messed up a little bit the following thing: Starting e.g. emacs from a terminal (xterm, gnome-terminal) with emacs & and closing the parent terminal also closes emacs (sic !) I am really looking out for infos (was looking in google for 3 hours now), what could be the reason for this behavior. I would be very thankful for any little hint. Thx a lot and cheers, Stephan |
When you send it to the background, it is still associated with your terminal. On logging out, a HUP signal is sent to all the programs, including those in the background. Use of the "nohup" utility is indicated in these situations.
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Try doing this instead:
( emacs & ) The parens around the command will spawn a subshell, so when you close your term emacs will keep on running. |
100000 x thx !!!
You mates are really great ... Linux community for ever !!... both hints work perfectly ...
just a short comment on this: On a redhat enterprise machine I normally use just the & and the process is a new parent (and not a child any more), There tcsh is running, not bash ... is this the reason for that ? Thx very very much for your help ... |
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