Very kewl, did not know about "disown". Regrettably the version of ksh on this server (Solaris 10) does not support disown.
If it doesn't support it, you don't even need it, so just remove it.
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Why did you use "</dev/null", I know what it is but not why you used it.
Because that's exactly what nohup does. Things that try to read from /dev/null will instantly get 'end of file', which is better than an error like 'invalid file descriptor' that you'd get from actually closing the file. See man nohup.
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Code:
#!/usr/bin/env ksh
interact with user
echo "script will now run independently in background"
nohup -p $$
(
so something
...
)&
exit 0
I don't know what -p does, my system doesn't have it. But the nohup is entirely redundant here. Your script also doesn't work like it should since you're not doing redirections on the part inside the subshell anymore. If you just did redirections the way I did in the first place instead of ripping them out...
Code:
#!/usr/bin/env ksh
interact with user
echo "script will now run independently in background"
(
so something
...
) >>nohup.log 2>&1 </dev/null &
exit 0
Hi All,
Language like C,Java can interact with database..and can use database information .. can a shall script do this?
if yes thn plz guide me.....
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Hi,
I want to write a script which should be run only on foreground. Is there any way that the script can check itself whether it was run using nohup or ksh and if the user runs the script using nohup then it should prompt the user to run it using ksh?
If (The user triggers the script using... (4 Replies)
Hello all!
I have a C program that runs on a loop, prompting the user for input until it is exited. I want to create a shell script that can run this program and provide input. How can I do this? I have investigated 'expect' and piping to stdin, but haven't had any success. Any help is... (2 Replies)
So, I have an expect script (let's call it expect.exp) that takes 3 arguments. It logs into a remote server, runs a set of commands, then hands control over to the user by the "interact" command. If I call this script from the command line, it works properly.
Now I'd like to apply this script... (2 Replies)
Hi
I'm working on an Expect script that is supposed to log-into a remote server and run some steps and exit. In the script I first spawn a 'ssh' session to the server and then after logging in I 'send' all the necessary steps ( with a '\r' at the end, so that they get automatically executed the... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I am new on PHP scripting .I have shell scripts which I an running currently from linux server but now I want to make a web portal from where I will run all my scripts but the problem is all my scripts ask for parameters so I am getting confused how could I run my shell script from web... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I'm quite new to ksh scripting, can someone help me with this.
Requirements:
I need to create a script that list the files from a user input date range.
e. g. format of file:
*c1*log.2012-12-22-14-00*
*c1*log.2012-12-22-14-00*
*c1*log.2012-12-22-14-00*... (1 Reply)
Hi Guys,
Further to my post yesterday I have got round the issue of not being able to use expect by using one of our unix machines to have the script running instead of the jumpbox itself. However my issue is I now have an extra bit it the script which is shh to the jumpbox which requires a ras... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I want to save pid of a child process but I get empty file.
su myuser -c "nohup ./mydaemon.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 & print $! > mydaemon.pid"
This one works:
nohup ./mydaemon.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 & print $! > mydaemon.pid
Please help. Thank you in advance. (2 Replies)
I have a need to run any number of identical scripts simultaneously, so I've created a driver script which reads a template script, edits these appropriately and then submits them via nohup. The spawned scripts all check to see at some point how many of their number are running and once the count... (7 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN
nohup
NOHUP(1) BSD General Commands Manual NOHUP(1)NAME
nohup -- invoke a utility immune to hangups
SYNOPSIS
nohup [--] utility [arguments]
DESCRIPTION
The nohup utility invokes utility with its arguments and at this time sets the signal SIGHUP to be ignored. If the standard output is a ter-
minal, the standard output is appended to the file nohup.out in the current directory. If standard error is a terminal, it is directed to
the same place as the standard output.
Some shells may provide a builtin nohup command which is similar or identical to this utility. Consult the builtin(1) manual page.
ENVIRONMENT
The following variables are utilized by nohup:
HOME If the output file nohup.out cannot be created in the current directory, the nohup utility uses the directory named by HOME to create
the file.
PATH Used to locate the requested utility if the name contains no '/' characters.
DIAGNOSTICS
The nohup utility exits with one of the following values:
126 The utility was found, but could not be invoked.
127 The utility could not be found or an error occurred in nohup.
Otherwise, the exit status of nohup will be that of utility.
SEE ALSO builtin(1), csh(1), signal(3)STANDARDS
The nohup utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.
BUGS
Two or more instances of nohup can append to the same file, which makes for a confusing output.
BSD July 19, 2001 BSD