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Date:      Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:36:32 +0530
From:      "Siju George" <sgeorge.ml@gmail.com>
To:        "freebsd list" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Closing the terminal results in closing of application started by the terminal even if the processes is backgrounded
Message-ID:  <b713df2c0808230106l38e4a715rd26b0bab3f36df20@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi,

I started Firefox from an xterm.
Then I pressed <ctrl> +Z
And the I typed bg to background Firefox process.
But when I close xterm firefox also closes.
Why is that?

thanks

Siju



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