How to make a batch file to start program and close the oldwindow?

[Les]

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 21:27 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:

> Arch Willingham wrote:
> > I tried that. After I did it, when you dbl click on the file, you see a screen flash by very quickly and then it disappears. I looked at the running processes and rdesktop is not running a running process (I'm from the Windows world and what I just typed may be barking up the wrong tree...I just took a SWAG and assumed if it was running t=in the background I would still see rdesktop running but Linux may not work that way).
> 
> The problem is that you are in the same process group and get killed by 
> a signal when your parent shell exits.  'nohup' takes care of an 
> assortment of things that need to keep working.  Try
> 
> nohup command  &
> exit
> 
> The 'nohup' redirects output to a file and starts a new process group, 
> the '&' lets the shell continue instead of waiting, and the 'exit' 
> should close the shell window.

Thanks, Les,
    I Know that old age is supposed to consume gray matter, but come
on.... I couldn't remember the command to save my life.

Regards,
Les H
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