[kde-linux] kde kills background jobs on exit

[Rod Butcher]

Rex Dieter wrote:
> Rod Butcher wrote:
> 
> 
>>I find that if I use a KDE session to start a longrunning background job
>>(e.g. BOINC setiathome, not using X) and it's not running in a terminal,
>>just sending all its output to a file, when I close the KDE session it
>>kills the background job as well. 
> 
> 
> Use nohup to start the background process.
Thanks, but isn't this overkill (pun intentional) ? What if I really do 
want to hangup the program ? To me the real question is, why does kde 
kill it, if that's what is indeed happening.
Rod
> 
> -- Rex
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