Re: nohup command

[michael <linux@networkingnewsletter.org.uk>]

Olive Esseret wrote:
> > 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! 

It behaves as expected (ie emacs keeps running) when I do it!