<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.12.3"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 21:27 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> 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. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> 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 </BODY> </HTML>