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Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 10:30:35 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Starting Programms in the background
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klaus DOT berndl AT sdm DOT de wrote:
> 
> If i start a program in the background from bash (e.g. "winword.exe <document> &") then
> all is working fine. But if i try to exit from the bash-shell from which i have started the program
> before i have finished the program then bash writes "logout" but doesn´t terminate until i terminate
> all previous started programs.
> 
> How can this be avoided, means how to exit bash regardless of any still running background programs?

Never, I fear. It sounds as if you are running some 9X system. It's
a problem of all 9X console windows that you can't close the window
unless all child processes are killed. If you want to run daemons
invisible you'll have to start them by using a shortcut with the
minimized state set.

Corinna

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