10-08-2013
You are blanking the output file every time you kill, too. Remove that pile of redirections from kill.
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disown
disown(1) User Commands disown(1)
NAME
disown - ksh93 built-in function to disassociate a job with the current shell
SYNOPSIS
disown [job ...]
DESCRIPTION
The ksh93 disown command prevents the current shell from sending a HUP signal to each of the specified jobs when the current shell termi-
nates a login session.
If job is omitted, disown sends the HUP signal to the most recently started or stopped background job.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
job Specifies the job or jobs on which disown operates.
Specify job as one of the following:
number Refers to a process ID.
-number Refers to a process group ID.
%number Refers to a job number.
%string Refers to a job whose name begins with string.
%?string Refers to a job whose name contains string.
%+ or %% Refers to the current job.
%- Refers to the previous job.
EXIT STATUS
0 Successful completion.
>0 One or more specified jobs does not exist.
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Disowning a Job
The following example disowns job 1:
example% disown %1
AUTHORS
David Korn, dgk@research.att.com
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Uncommitted |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
bg(1), jobs(1), ksh93(1), wait(1), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.11 18 Apr 2007 disown(1)