Process launched by user who logs out, continue running ?

Browser_ice · #1 (**permalink**) 08-08-2006

Lets say a user starts a process (either a shell script or a Perl script) and before that process finishes, he logs out (either intentionaly or network problems or ...), does the process continu running ?

Default shell is Korn.

This is because at my job (being trained), there are tasks to run which involves doing a bunch of commands and/or scripts to run. I was thinking about scripting the whole thing to save time and decrease human errors. But someone asked me what happens when a user logs out. That got me thinking ...

gurukottur · #2 (**permalink**) 08-08-2006

using nohup command will keep the process running even the session disconnects

spiers · #3 (**permalink**) 08-08-2006

nohup syntax

nohup unload_subs_daily_calls.sh >> log &

It will give you a pid of the background process and everything is writen to the log.

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