On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:59:29AM -0800, Olive Esseret wrote: > > --- Olive Esseret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I want to configure bash in order that background > > process remains alive if we close the windows from > > which we have lauched the process (this would be > > especially usefull for X applications: if I lauch > > emacs& ; I do not want that closing the xterm > > windows > > close emacs). I have tried the > > shopt -u huponexit > > option but it does not work for nacground process: > > shopt -u huponexit > > emacs& > > then if we close the xterm window; emacs will quit. > > > > I can manually disown the process: > > emacs& disown > > but would it possible to have that automatically? > > > > Olive
NOHUP(1) User Commands NOHUP(1) NAME nohup - run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty SYNOPSIS nohup COMMAND [ARG]... nohup OPTION DESCRIPTION Run COMMAND, ignoring hangup signals. --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]