[BSD-INDIA] Closing the terminal results in closing of application started by the terminal even if the processes is backgrounded

[Arun Sharma]

The fix is to prefix your firefox command with a nohup. Traditionally,
UNIX sends SIGHUP to processes started from a shell when the shell
exits. Not sure why the behavior is different on other OSes.

On a separate note, many of the GUI based applications these days spew
a lot of debug output to the tty they were started from. So I tend to
run them via the "Run Command" interface of the desktop.

 -Arun

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Siju George <sgeorge.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> This happens in FreeBSD I forgot to add.
>
> Thanks
>
> Siju
>
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Siju George <sgeorge.ml at gmail.com> 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?
>> This not the behavior in any other BSD or linux :-(
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Siju
>>
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