From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from gatech.edu (gatech.edu [130.207.244.244]) by werple.mira.net.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id BAA13396 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 01:34:46 +1000 Received: from math (math.skiles.gatech.edu) by gatech.edu with SMTP id AA18395 (5.65c/Gatech-10.0-IDA for ); Wed, 20 Sep 1995 11:33:17 -0400 Received: by math (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA27680; Wed, 20 Sep 1995 11:25:16 -0400 Old-Return-Path: Resent-Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 15:38:09 +0100 (BST) Old-Return-Path: From: Zefram Message-Id: <17439.199509201438@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: weird xterm behaviour To: JONH@cc.usu.edu (Jon) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 15:38:09 +0100 (BST) Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu (Z Shell users mailing list) In-Reply-To: from "Jon" at Sep 20, 95 08:02:17 am X-Loop: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk X-Stardate: [-31]6318.04 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-Id: <"84-xO.0.Fm6.M93Om"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/95 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > I'm having a strange problem with zsh in xterms. zsh is my default >shell, so an xterm uses zsh by default. I can open other windows from >the xterm (for example, I type 'netscape &') and it works fine, until I >close the other window. At this point, the xterm also closes. I'm using >Linux, and this doesn't seem to happen with any other shells. Has anyone >seen this problem before? Any ideas about how to fix it? By default, zsh will send a SIGHUP (hangup) to all background jobs when it exits. To avoid this, you can use nohup when starting the background job, or disown the job after starting it (using the disown builtin), or set the NO_HUP option (using setopt). -zefram