Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all,

I am currently facing a problem when i am submitting a script to run in the background to collect statistics round the clock on an AIX box. I don't have root authority nor can I set it in cron.

So when i submit the job, it runs fine, but won't let me signoff. It prompts me that "there are jobs running " and as soon as I signoff, the background job stops.

The simple script to collect filesystem utilisation over the last 24 hours is as follows:

#!/bin/ksh


rm fs24.out

export FS_CNT=1

while [ $FS_CNT -lt 25 ]
do
echo `date` | tee -a fs24.out
df -g | tee -a fs24.out
FS_CNT=` expr $FS_CNT + 1 `
sleep 3600
done



Any suggestion please.

Thanks

call the script like this:

Code:

nohup script.sh &

Thanks grial,

You did put me on the right track.

Warm regards