Hallelujah!!!! That worked!!!! Thanks so much for the help! Arch -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 10:28 PM To: For users of Fedora Subject: Re: How to make a batch file to start program and closethe oldwindow? Arch Willingham wrote: > I tried that. After I did it, when you dbl click on the file, you see a screen flash by very quickly and then it disappears. I looked at the running processes and rdesktop is not running a running process (I'm from the Windows world and what I just typed may be barking up the wrong tree...I just took a SWAG and assumed if it was running t=in the background I would still see rdesktop running but Linux may not work that way). The problem is that you are in the same process group and get killed by a signal when your parent shell exits. 'nohup' takes care of an assortment of things that need to keep working. Try nohup command & exit The 'nohup' redirects output to a file and starts a new process group, the '&' lets the shell continue instead of waiting, and the 'exit' should close the shell window. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
