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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Running two processes in background Post 21206 by jacob_gs on Monday 13th of May 2002 11:40:38 AM
Old 05-13-2002
Quote:
Originally posted by Perderabo


I am a little worried about this. The parentheses create a subshell and the ampersand puts this subshell into the background. The subshell then uses nohup to run the first process and then it uses nohup to run the second process. The problem is that the subshell itself is not nohup'ed.

I think that
nohup sh -c "( A ; B )" &
will avoid this problem.
hi Perderabo,

great solution ! works just like i wanted it to.

Perderabo - you were right about the subshell not being nohup'ed

Cameron - thanks for initiating the solution-thought. greatly appreciated.

thanks folks
jacob
 

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suspend(1)                                                         User Commands                                                        suspend(1)

NAME
suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell SYNOPSIS
sh suspend csh suspend ksh suspend DESCRIPTION
sh Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell). csh Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su. ksh Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 suspend(1)
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