From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: bash and '&' 6 Apr 1998 16:14:45 -0700 Message-ID: <01BD5BC1.F27BFE70.cygnus.gnu-win32@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru> To: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" , "'Jeffrey C. Fried'" Jeffrey C. Fried wrote: > Try ZSH. It supports a 'disown' command under unix and the NT version may > have it as well. Disown separates a process from the shell which spawns it. > > .. jeff > > At 02:01 PM 3/19/98 -0800, you wrote: > >I want to leave a simple program running after quiting the shell, and > >even logging off. It's done under unix by adding '&'. I failed to do > >this using cygwin32. Is it supposed to behave the same way under > >cygwin32? What should I do? > > That will not help. NT's winlogon service terminates all processes started in interactive session on user's logoff. -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".