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Old 10-31-2005, 01:13 PM   #1
yumener
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Run application from terminal with &

I have a question of runing application from terminal, say, I run emacs

$emacs &

the problem is that when I close this terminal, emacs termnated either.

Does '&' mean it allow the application to continue to run after the terminal
is closed?

platform: FC4+Gnome

thanks.

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Old 10-31-2005, 01:33 PM   #2
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no, it doesn't mean that at all. you want "nohup"
 
  


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