11-21-2005
nohup in cron job
Hello,
I have bunch of shell scripts, which I want to execute every hour in the background. So I created a script mainscript.sh which executes these hourly scripts in the background. Script goes like this.
mainscript.sh
#!/bin/sh
nohup sh subscript1.sh &
nohup sh subscrip2.sh &
exit 0
And I set up this mainscript.sh script through cron to execute every hour. When I run this script manually it runs all other scripts properly in the background. But nothing is happening with cron setup.
Your help is appreciable
thanks
papachi_2000
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