To run this job for a single time, then go with nohup command ..
If you need to run this for every 1 hour, better go with cron entry ..
Hi jayan_jay,
Thanx a lot , amazing, nice explanation , one thing I want to make clear using nohup command is running a job in background continuously...? since I want my script to check at source folder then pick up the txt files from there and the text files will be generated in source folder after every 1 hour , so my above script should check the source folder after every 1 hour and from there pick p the files and put it into destion...which one will be better choice ...please guide...?
and one thing more is that this service should continue to run even after i come out from my current session that is in the backgroud it should continue to run..!!
Hi all,
I wish to have a script running even if my session is disconnected.
I've tried calling another session within it and using sudo to a different user, but it didn't work - as it was expected to do so :rolleyes:
I guess I'll have to work with "nohup" command, right ?
trying with the... (4 Replies)
I'm trying to figure out how I can run a script "myScript.sh" in such a way that if my remote network connection gets disconnected, the script doesn't stop functioning.
Right now I log in, run "./myScript.sh" and watch my output get pumped to a log file for about 10 hours. Only problem is that... (3 Replies)
Hello all,
I have written a shell script which would prompt the user to enter some name and a folder would be created by that name.
This script should run automatically when the users provide there credentials during a FTP session and for every FTP session.
And after they have provided there... (5 Replies)
Dear Friends,
I have this script CAP2_Launcher on suntest server. this script needs two input files in order to process them and produces an output files.
I've created .bat file from windows to access the server and transfer the input files needed by the script and execute the script then pull... (3 Replies)
I'm looking at allowing remote telnet into my server.
like any security-minded administrator, I want to log what my users type on the telnet session.
I'm using the script command to generate transcripts of the users session.
I have /etc/profile set to automatically start the script command... (2 Replies)
I have a file as follows:
cat /etc/mxg/ssh-hostsmx.example1.com.au:2225
mx2.example2.com.au:2225
mx.example3.com.au:2225
mail.example4.com.au:2225
mail.example5.org.au:2225
mail.example6.com.au:2225I want to dynamically create aliases for quick access to these servers from bash. I wrote... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a script called
bash$> cat -ev setprofile.sh
alias rm='rm -i'$
$
The alias does not take effect unless i run the script as
bash$> . ./setprofile.sh
What do I have to do in-order to simply run (9 Replies)
Hi guys,
I am using a script that run ftp and transfer file from my source server to the destination server.
Since i have transferred my files to the destination server, now i want to run a script at the destination server.
Could you please help me regarding how to run a script in a ftp... (7 Replies)
Hello.
This is my situation.
script .anything
ls -l .
---How can I see the content of .anything using (i.e) cat .anything?
If not possible can someone suggest a sequence to simulate a console-recorder
to "observ" from a RUNNING script session?
Thanks
Paolo
Please use code tags... (3 Replies)
Hi there,
I'm trying to run a script remotely on a server in a particular directory named after hostname which already exists, my login session gets killed as soon as I run the below command. Not sure what is wrong, is there a better way to do it ?
Note: I can also use nohup command to run... (14 Replies)
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nohup
nohup(1) General Commands Manual nohup(1)NAME
nohup - run a command immune to hangups
SYNOPSIS
command [arguments]
DESCRIPTION
executes command with hangups and quits ignored. If output is not redirected by the user, both standard output and standard error are sent
to If is not writable in the current directory, output is redirected to otherwise, fails. If a file is created, the file's permission bits
will be set to
If output from is redirected to a terminal, or is not redirected at all, the output is sent to
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
Environment Variables
determines the language in which messages are displayed.
If is not specified in the environment or is set to the empty string, the value of is used as a default for each unspecified or empty vari-
able. If is not specified or is set to the empty string, a default of "C" (see lang(5)) is used instead of
If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting, behaves as if all internationalization variables are set to "C". See
environ(5).
International Code Set Support
Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported.
EXAMPLES
It is frequently desirable to apply to pipelines or lists of commands. This can be done only by placing pipelines and command lists in a
single file, called a shell script. To run the script using
features apply to the entire contents of file. If the shell script file is to be executed often, the need to type can be eliminated by
setting execute permission on file. The script can also be run in the background with interrupts ignored (see sh(1)):
file typically contains normal keyboard command sequences that one would want to continue running in case the terminal disconnects, such
as:
WARNINGS
Be careful to place punctuation properly. For example, in the command form:
applies only to command1. To correct the problem, use the command form:
Be careful of where standard error is redirected. The following command may put error messages on tape, making it unreadable:
whereas
puts the error messages into file
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
The command specified by
command was found but could not be invoked
An error occurred in the nohup utility or the specified
command could not be found
Otherwise, the exit status of nohup will be that of the command specified.
SEE ALSO chmod(1), nice(1), sh(1), signal(5).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE nohup(1)