On Monday, 6 November 2006 03:24, Bill Spatz wrote: > On Sun November 5 2006 06:04 pm, ET wrote: > > J. D. Leach wrote: > > > Time to be stupid again, what was it you typed in front of an > > > application name in a console so that you could close the console > > > without terminating your app? > > > > not sure about before, but ctrl+z seems to put some in the > > background, in bash > > You can also use the ampersand (&) following the command > > i.e. kcalc & >
If you want to run a background process independently of the shell or parent process, then the commonly accepted method is: nohup <command> & You may wish to consign the standard and error output to the great bitbucket in the sky too, so then you would include some redirection: nohup <command> 2>&1 > /dev/null & The use of nohup means that you can log out of the shell and the process will continue until it terminates normally. I hope that helps. cheers Duncan Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
