Re: I'm sure this is a silly question

[Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Birt, Jeffrey wrote:
> I tried both:
>  	gedit &
> 	gedit >/dev/null 2>&1 &
>
> Both would give me back the console window, which I could then close but
> it still killed the process.

Try:
$ nohup gedit >/dev/null 2>&1 &

Paul.