Rob Hudson wrote:
> Here's something I've always been curious about. I think of it b/c
> I'm burning a CD as I write this, and if X goes down I will most
> likely end up making a coaster b/c X will bring down my Eterm, which
> will bring down my cdrecord command that's open in it.
>
> Is there a way to have commands you type in an Eterm under X to stay
> active even if X goes down? Can you attach the process to the current
> tty instead of the X session? Am I thinking of this the right way?
Say this.
# nohup cdrecord ...
nohup is short for "no hangup", a relic of the days when people
connected terminals to time sharing systems via modems and phone
lines.
If a process's controlling terminal is disconnected, Unix generates a
SIGHUP ("signal hangup"). Nohup ignores SIGHUP before running the
command.
So why is your X server so fragile? Mine only goes down when PG&E
tells it to. :-(
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Bob Miller K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
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