On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 01:43:53 -0400 Chris I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2003.09.09 00:31, 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. > > I can't reproduce this with aterm. > > xev & > exit
Odd but I usually just close the terminal window with a mouse click which kills my background process. But closing with "exit" seems to leave my process running. What is the difference? > > and xev is still running (granted, it is completely useless without a > terminal, but it is all i could think of that didnt fork itself when > run). > > -- > > Chris I > > A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. > -- Patton > ************************ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************ Microsoft and Intel free ************************ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
