On 09/09/03 rh wrote: > When I start a process running in the background, as in, "xplanet > -projection rectangular 2>/dev/null &", why when I exit the terminal > window, does that process die? Kind of defeats the purpose of shoving > it to the background if you still have to keep the eterm open.
It dies because the parent process dies. I think you are looking for nohup or screen. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.
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