Paul Isambert wrote: > Thanks Clive for your help. Unfortunately Icedove stays attached to the > uppermost terminal (which I want to close too, perhaps that wasn't > clear). Even with the simplest form: > > bash --rcfile <(echo icedove \&) > > when I close the terminal, it closes Icedove. > > But at least I have learnt something!
and in reply to Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins, Paul Isambert wrote: > Thank you Iuri, but the terminal still stays open. > > What I want to do is the following: I have a Lua script which lets me > selects programs, then calls them with "os.execute(<program>)", and the > terminal where the Lua script runs closes too. Only with Icedove it > stays attached, so I'm trying very hard to detach it so the terminal can > close. Hi Paul, I've obviously misunderstood your intention (I thought you wanted to keep the second (and possibly the first) terminal open at an interactive prompt). It looks easier now. I don't know anything about Lua, but searching around suggests that os.execute executes its command in a shell, not directly. In that case you should be able to use a command like icedove & but if that causes icedove to be closed immediately, you could try nohup icedove & Note I can't test any of this because I don't have LUA installed. I hope this helps. Otherwise I'm out of ideas. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111130160216.ga18...@rimmer.esmertec.com
