X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 20:20:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Tyler Spivey cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: keeping program running after closing of bash In-Reply-To: <20060519001357.GA2192@test1> Message-ID: References: <20060519001357.GA2192@test1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Thu, 18 May 2006, Tyler Spivey wrote: > How can I keep a program running after bash exits? If I run nohup, I > have no luck - since pressing control-d or logging out of the terminal > window will kill the process that nohup started. > Any tips? Use 'setsid' (a program) or 'disown' (a bash builtin). You can also use 'cygstart', which not make the process a child of the current shell at all. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/