don’t terminate even I close the terminal

March 15th, 2007 mysurface Posted in Misc, nohup | Hits: 19041 | 2 Comments »

There are many cases where when I run a program from a terminal (gnome-terminal, xterm etc), and I accidentally close the terminal, the program will be terminated as well. This happen even I send the program to background, for example I initiate xmms from gnome-terminal

xmms &

When I close the gnome terminal, xmms is terminated as well. To avoid programs from terminated, use a command call nohup (No hang up!)

nohup xmms

The terminal output will looks like this:

nohup: appending output to `nohup.out'

It will now not hang up when you close your terminal.

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2 Responses to “don’t terminate even I close the terminal”

  1. compromise copy and paste schemes in linux » Linux by Examples Says:
    April 25th, 2007 at 10:14 pm

    [...] You now can close your terminal and enjoy your copy and paste. To know what is nohup? check out Don’t terminate even I close the terminal. [...]

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