Hey There! I just installed Mandrake 8.0 and want to be able to burn cd's. What program that comes with Mandrake 8.0 is a good one to use? And how do I install it? Regards, Jim Darrough At 02:07 PM 6/9/2001 -0700, you wrote: > > On 20010609.1239, Bob Miller said ... > > > > 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. :-( > >It's been stable lately. For awhile there I was running the beta >drivers from Matrox for a dual-head setup with X 4.0.2. Since 4.0.3 >and now 4.1.0, things seem a lot more stable. > >Thanks for the nohup trick. > >-Rob