You guys probably knew already, but me just figured out how to get the return value of job running/ran in background.
For some weird reason it didnt want to work with an exported variable.
This one will write the exit code to a temp file, so it can be easy retrieved after the loop is done.
Where $JOB is a scriptfile containg the command to execute and $TEMP_FILE is a pre-set var (like: /tmp/tmp.ret)
Now to use that retvar in a variable again is easy:
Et voila
Hiya,
Recently I've run a few scripts in the foreground, but have realised later they should of been better nohup'd and placed in the background. I understand how to change a foreground job into a background one, but how would put the job into the nohup state?
Thanks (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I am running a job .. and i want to know the status tht it is runnig or not ..
and how can i find the jobId of my job ..
I have to get it to kill my running job
Pls let me know da Unix commands to do it ..
i m wrking on Hp UNIX (1 Reply)
I have run one shell script in background that contains a endless while loop.
I am not able to know the status of that job .
Please provide any command to know this. I have already used "ps -aef" , "jobs" to know it , but it didn't work. I am sure the process is running as it is generating a file... (8 Replies)
Guys,
We use AIX 5.3 at our work place. I only in my team have a strange problem of not able run jobs background. Other colleagues are able to run without any problem.
Once I kick off background job using nohup and & command, It immediately stops. The following error I get when I run.
... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I am running a shell script whose execution often takes several hours to complete. Is there way I can get some kind of status update as the job is running? Something as simple as the start and the current time stamp.
Thanks,
Gussi (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a scenario where I am executing some child shell scripts in background (using &)through a master parent script.
Is there a way I can capture the exit status of each individual child script after the execution is completed. (2 Replies)
Is there a way to suspend (TSTP?) a job that is running in the background, _without_ first bringing it to the foreground and inputting Ctrl-Z from the keyboard?
IOW, something similar to issuing the shell's bg builtin command on a job ID to resume a job that is suspended in the background,... (2 Replies)
Hi,
Should the user jobs specified in crontab be running in background?
Cron daemon is already running in background. So I am not sure
whether should the jobs (output and error messages are redirected to file)
ran by it be explicitly stated to be run in background (& at end of command)
if one... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I want to write a script which continuously checking status of a script running in background by nohup command. And if same script is not running then immediately start the script...please help..
i am using below command to run script
nohup system_traps.sh &
but in some... (9 Replies)