[kde-linux] kde kills background jobs on exit

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Jan 19 16:43:37 UTC 2006


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.

-- Rex




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