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Old 04-14-2009
Run script in the background with a time interval
I have a script I want to run in the background, and I have looked it up but I am not exactly sure how to do. First of all to run it in the background do you have to put something in the script or is it just a command when you go to run it. I found this solution to it but once again I am not to sure how to use it.

Code:
nohup script &

and I need the program to be set to use at interval, which I am not sure how to do either.

Thanks in advance.
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Old 04-14-2009
when ever you execute "nohup script &"

The process is running in background and it gives a id like
===========
amit@server $ nohup amit.sh &
[1] 21491
amit@server $ Sending output to nohup.out
===================

Here 1 is the job id
so to the command to bring it from back ground is

fg %1
here 1 is the job id
# 3  
Old 04-15-2009
Thanks sorry it took so long to respond. That is a big help. Also I just used sleep and set a default time interval of 10 minutes.
 
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