Closing the terminal results in closing of application started by the terminal even if the processes is backgrounded

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? thanks Siju ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Closing the terminal results in closing of application started by the terminal even if the processes is backgrounded

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 01:36:32PM +0530, Siju George wrote: 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. firefox still gets a SIGHUP since its controlling terminal is that xterm. (if it's

Re: Closing the terminal results in closing of application started by the terminal even if the processes is backgrounded

On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:36:32 +0530, 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? When the terminal application (xterm) is closed,

Re: Closing the terminal results in closing of application started by the terminal even if the processes is backgrounded

On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:03:26 +0200 Polytropon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In order to prevent firefox from being closed when the starting terminal session is closed, start it via % firefox It will then eventually put status messages to this xterm, but the shell is free again to accept