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Old 07-01-2011
Move shell script from foreground to background
Hi,

Need an urgent help. I have a program executing in foreground. I need to execute it in background and also to remove terminal dependency.


Thanks In advance.
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# 2  
Old 07-01-2011
What system are you using?
# 3  
Old 07-01-2011
HP-UX OS.
korn shell.
I tried to push the process in background using Ctrl+Z and then bg. then to remove terminal dependency I am doing nohup <pid>. But it says process stopped.

any ideas?
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Old 07-01-2011
I think it should be nohup -p pid. At least it is done like that in Solaris and AIX.
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Old 07-01-2011
it getting stopped tty input message before I try nohup.
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Old 07-01-2011
After you hit CTRL+Z and do bg, what is the output of jobs?
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Old 07-01-2011
Code:
 
[1] + Stopped (tty input)
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