The fix is to prefix your firefox command with a nohup. Traditionally, UNIX sends SIGHUP to processes started from a shell when the shell exits. Not sure why the behavior is different on other OSes.
On a separate note, many of the GUI based applications these days spew a lot of debug output to the tty they were started from. So I tend to run them via the "Run Command" interface of the desktop. -Arun On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This happens in FreeBSD I forgot to add. > > Thanks > > Siju > > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I started Firefox from an xterm. >> Then I pressed <ctrl> +Z >> And the I typed bg to background Firefox process. >> But when I close xterm firefox also closes. >> Why is that? >> This not the behavior in any other BSD or linux :-( >> >> thanks >> >> Siju >> > _______________________________________________ > bsd-india mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bsd-india.org/mailman/listinfo/bsd-india > > _______________________________________________ bsd-india mailing list [email protected] http://www.bsd-india.org/mailman/listinfo/bsd-india
