On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 10:18, Jay Daniels wrote: > If I open a terminal and run a program in the background using the "&" > when I close the terminal the program gets killed. > > xclock & > x out of terminal kills xclock! > > How do I prevent this? > > > jay > If you start it with the ampersand and later want to close the xterm but keep the other app (xclock) going, you can use 'disown' to do the same thing that 'nohup' does when starting it as mentioned in earlier posts. For example: $ xclock & $ disown xclock Paul
