Do you want to do any additional processing while the file is being transferred? If not, I don't see why the transfer process should be separated from the main process.
Otherwise, here's a small script on how to use fork:
Hi,
Thanks for your reply. My sense is that FTP should not be depended on the main process it should be as an background process. Yes there are chances of additional processing while the file is being transferred
Suppose my main program is main.pl and ftp is callftp.pl how do i utilize the above program and put callftp.pl as an background program?
Hello all,
How do I start a background process and save the process id to a file on my system. For example %wait 5 & will execute and print the process id. I can't figure out how to get it to a file. I've tried: > filename 0>filename 1>filename.
Any assistance is most appreciated.
Thanks,
Jim... (10 Replies)
Hi,
Thanks in advance.
i need to kill a unix background running job after that job process completes.
i can kill a job by giving the following unix command
kill -9 processid
how to kill the job after the current process run gets completed ?
Appreciate your valuable help.
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Hi,
Thanks in advance.
i need to kill a unix background running job after that job process completes.
i can kill a job by giving the following unix command
kill -9 processid
how to kill the job after the current process run gets completed ?
Appreciate your valuable help.
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return value
}
In another Perl program I call above function such as
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Hi
When I run ./script.sh &
the script runs in bg
But when I close the telnet session, the script is killed also.
any idea how to keep this script running?
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Hi, guys:
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Hi,
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{
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Hi,
I have written a menu driven shell script in which as per the choice, I run the another script on background.
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2)process info
3)modify info
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