Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community


Shell Programming and Scripting

Session independent process

Login to Discuss or Reply to this Discussion in Our Community

 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Session independent process
# 1  
Old 10-20-2010
Session independent process
Hi

i am trying to run a report which takes approx 5 hours to complete so what i did i put that reporting command in background and then this reporting process started executed in background but the problem is when i close that session that background job lost Smilie ....

please help me that how to run a command in background which is session independent
# 2  
Old 10-20-2010
Hi.

Have a look at the nohup command.
# 3  
Old 10-20-2010
nohup /home/user/yourscript >/home/user/yourscript.log 2>&1 &

---------- Post updated at 01:41 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:41 PM ----------

Code:
nohup /home/user/yourscript >/home/user/yourscript.log  2>&1 &

You can also launch it using crontab

You can also launch it in a GNU screen session this very nice tool allow sharing/unattaching/re-attaching sessions.
Last edited by ctsgnb; 10-20-2010 at 08:46 AM..
# 4  
Old 10-20-2010
hiiiii
thanx for reply it worked
thanx
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

9 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Emergency UNIX and Linux Support

Nohup process getting killed after closing PUTTY session

I am running a process in nohup . nohup getkeys.ksh 132 > 132.out & When I close the putty terminal,The process is getting killed . default_signal_handler called for signal no: 1 Is there a way to keep the process running even If I close the terminal (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: prasperl
2 Replies

2. Solaris

Start process independent from TERMINAL (or also with PPID 1)

Hi *, please, I need fast tip (help). I have a process starting through /etc/rc3.d/xxxx script. However, sometimes (mostly because of testing reasons) I need to stop the process, change something and then start it again. But: 1) when I start it in terminal, the process dies when I leave the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: freeangel
2 Replies

3. Solaris

Number of process per user session

Hi All, Do we have any option through which we can limit the number of process which can be started by single user session. Thanks (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: kumarmani
3 Replies

4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

attach process from another ssh session

Hi, I was logged in on a server, by ssh, with a vim open, when the battery of my laptop got empty. When I return to the server by ssh, I can see my previous ssh session still open, and the vim process running (ttyp0). Is there a way to attach that vim to my new session (ttyp4)? Here's part... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: raphinou
2 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

starting a bash session as child process to another bash session from a process

Hi I want to do something that might sound strange. I have a code that in written in C and is executed at startup (it's a custom process). It occasionally calls some bash scripts. The process doesn't have any terminal associated with it. One thing I don't know how to do is to start a... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: alirezan
5 Replies

6. Solaris

I am not able to login in gnome session and java session in Sun solaris 9& 10

I am not able to login in gnome session and java session in Sun solaris 9& 10 respectively through xmanager as a nis user, I am able to login in common desktop , but gnome session its not allowing , when I have given login credentials, its coming back to login screen, what shoul I do to allow nis... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: durgaprasadr13
0 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

sqlplus session being able to see unix variables session within a script

Hi there. How do I make the DB connection see the parameter variables passed to the unix script ? The code snippet below isn't working properly. sqlplus << EOF user1@db1/pass1 BEGIN PACKAGE1.perform_updates($1,$2,$3); END; EOF Thanks in advance, Abrahao. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: 435 Gavea
2 Replies

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

how to Launch an independent process.

Hello, I needed a help please... I have an application which launches process. For this i am using fork and execv method calls. By doing this my launched process are now child process of the parent process(launching process). I dont want this to happen, i want the process that is launched to... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: deepthi
1 Replies

9. Filesystems, Disks and Memory

making the application session independent

Hi all, I am actually new to Unix programming and this is my first question to this forum. I have an application and i want it to run independent of the command shell. For example, i run the application from a telnet session. But when i close my session, application is terminated. I just... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: bokhari_jawad
2 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question