From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 23 21:58:59 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E51EF1065671 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:58:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [IPv6:2001:41c8:1:548a::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F48A8FC17 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:58:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 024B430114; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:58:55 +0100 (BST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on muon.cran.org.uk X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=8.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 Received: from tau.draftnet (tau.demon.co.uk [80.177.26.208]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:58:55 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:58:37 +0100 From: Bruce Cran To: Polytropon Message-ID: <20080823225837.38fbf81c@tau.draftnet> In-Reply-To: <20080823160326.7b19f81c.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20080823160326.7b19f81c.freebsd@edvax.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; amd64-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Siju George , freebsd list Subject: Re: Closing the terminal results in closing of application started by the terminal even if the processes is backgrounded X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:59:00 -0000 On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:03:26 +0200 Polytropon 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