On 7/5/07, Eduardo Sanz-Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Could you please try to do the following?
> 1- Open a terminal window
> 2- Call your favorite web browser from the terminal window and put it on
> the background.
> 3- Close the terminal window
> What happen with the web browser? Is it still alive?

On my system, iceweasel dies when the terminal is killed because it
gets a SIGHUP.  If you want your process to stick around after the
parent process dies you'll need to make sure you handle at least that
signal.  You can find a list of the things you really should do to
create a daemon at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/programmer/faq/,
search for "How do I get my program to act like a daemon".
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