nohup command
> 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
>
Yes I knew this command but it does not works in all
case: try (in X)
nohup emacs&
then close the xterm and you will see that emacs will
be closed! The following bash script does what I would
expect from nohup:
------ file mynohup ------
#! /bin/sh
trap '' 1
"$@"
------ end of file mynohup -------
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