Re: huponexit in bash (solved!)

[Antonio Rodriguez <arodriguez31@cfl.rr.com>]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:59:29AM -0800, Olive Esseret wrote:
> 
> --- Olive Esseret <olive_esseret@yahoo.com> 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