On Saturday 28 June 2003 07:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
> No this is not spam for a talk show.  :)  I'm trying to find out how to
> spawn a process from a shell script that becomes an independent Parent
> process not a child process.  Such so that if the Parent that spawns it

I use 

nohup <program> &

to do this.

This allows me to start a process fromthe command line in the background so I 
can still use the console, and then close the console when I'm done and not 
lose the app I started.

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