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

[Les Mikesell]

Les wrote:
> 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.
> 

The usual use of nohup is to start a long-running program from the 
command line so you can log out and come back later to find the output 
logged to the nohup.out file.  These days I usually do everything from a 
freenx/NX login and leave windows with long-running programs open or 
minimized so when I reconnect I can just pop that window back up.
You can also get the same effect with the vnc module that lets you 
access the X console screen remotely but freenx doesn't need as much 
bandwidth.

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