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From: J G Miller on 16 Mar 2010 09:52 On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:19:26 +0000, Bit Twister wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:50:30 -0700 (PDT), yawnmoth wrote: >> >> Is there a way to make it so >> Firefox would stay open even if the Terminal from which it opened was >> closed? > > Have you tried nohup firefox & Also (exec firefox &) will work.
From: unruh on 16 Mar 2010 11:24 On 2010-03-16, Bit Twister <BitTwister(a)mouse-potato.com> wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:50:30 -0700 (PDT), yawnmoth wrote: >> If, in Ubuntu, you open a new terminal, do "firefox &" and then close >> the terminal Firefox will close, as well. Is there a way to make it >> so Firefox would stay open even if the Terminal from which it opened >> was closed? > > Have you tried nohup firefox & The problem is stdin/out/error. They are connected to the terminal. If you close the terminal you close these three files, and the poor program is suddenly left adrift. You could also try filefox &>/dev/null </dev/null & to see if that helps
From: pk on 16 Mar 2010 11:34 yawnmoth wrote: > If, in Ubuntu, you open a new terminal, do "firefox &" and then close > the terminal Firefox will close, as well. Is there a way to make it > so Firefox would stay open even if the Terminal from which it opened > was closed? Works fine for me. I can close the terminal and firefox keeps running.
From: John Hasler on 16 Mar 2010 11:57 > Works fine for me. I can close the terminal and firefox keeps running. The Firefox (or a script) is either detaching itself or catching SIGHUP. -- John Hasler jhasler(a)newsguy.com Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA
From: John Hasler on 16 Mar 2010 11:55 Bit Twister writes: > Have you tried nohup firefox & unruh writes: > The problem is stdin/out/error. Nohup redirects them (redirecting stdin is a GNU extension). > You could also try firefox &>/dev/null </dev/null & to see if that > helps Without nohup Firefox will still die. -- John Hasler jhasler(a)newsguy.com Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA
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