From: BitTwister@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:59:54 +0100, herman.viaene@invalid.be.invalid wrote:   
   > I have a liitle script that does some backups at login. Now I want to add   
   > firefox and thunderbird to it.   
   > So I added at the end two lines   
   >   
   > firefox $   
   > mozilla-thunderbird $   
   >   
   > The result is that firefox starts and reports that the server www.$.com does   
   > not respond,   
      
   Yup, firefox is expecting argument 1 (your $) to be a url.   
      
      
   > and then of course thunderbird doe snot get started.   
   > is there a way to tell firefox to start in background ?   
      
   Yes.   
      
   nohup firefox &   
   nohup thunderbird &   
      
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