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Old 02-13-2009
background process
Hi

When I run ./script.sh &
the script runs in bg


But when I close the telnet session, the script is killed also.

any idea how to keep this script running?

thx
# 2  
Old 02-13-2009
'man nohup'
# 3  
Old 02-13-2009
nohup ./script &
# 4  
Old 02-13-2009
well yes but the output will be redirected then to nohup.log whereas I want the scripts redirects to a specific file and this is not working when using nohup


thanks
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Old 02-13-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by melanie_pfefer
well yes but the output will be redirected then to nohup.log whereas I want the scripts redirects to a specific file and this is not working when using nohup


thanks
so do the redirection yourself:
nohup './script.sh' >/tmp/myNohup.out$$ 2>&1 &
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