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Date:      Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:58:37 +0100
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        Siju George <sgeorge.ml@gmail.com>, freebsd list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Closing the terminal results in closing of application started by the terminal even if the processes is backgrounded
Message-ID:  <20080823225837.38fbf81c@tau.draftnet>
In-Reply-To: <20080823160326.7b19f81c.freebsd@edvax.de>
References:  <b713df2c0808230106l38e4a715rd26b0bab3f36df20@mail.gmail.com> <20080823160326.7b19f81c.freebsd@edvax.de>

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On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:03:26 +0200
Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:
> In order to prevent firefox from being closed when the starting
> terminal session is closed, start it via
> 
> 	% firefox &
> 
> It will then eventually put status messages to this xterm, but
> the shell is free again to accept commands.
> 
> Another possibility would be to use detach (from the ports), but
> this program is usually used when you want to keep running a program
> after you've logged out.

There's also nohup(1) which I think does the same thing.

-- 
Bruce Cran



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