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Sorry for this newbie question. I know I could eventually dig this up but why not (ab)use the list? Coming from a Solaris background, I'm quite used to opening terminals, launching jobs in the background and opening other terminals etc etc and then killing windows at will as the desktops get cluttered. However, in Linux, if I launch some applications in the background and then kill their terminal window, the applications terminate as well.
There is a difference between csh and bash in sending the SIGHUP signal to children when the interactive shell exits (see the corresponding man pages). I guess your login shell on Solaris was csh or tcsh. The default bash on Linux behaves differently but you can use csh there too. -- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se