I really appreciate all the good suggestions I got from
everybody who responded.
Barry Byrne writes:
I think the simplest thing would be to write a little wrapper script, that
calls your other script.
#!/bin/sh
echo Stating Daemon Now
/path/to/mainscript
This got me to thinking
2009/6/6 Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu:
This also works in Linux's /bin/sh which I believe is an alias
for bash so occasionally little things work differently.
Usually is, but in some it's linked to dash.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh
Also, you should ONLY use
Barry Byrne writes:
B I think the simplest thing would be to write a little wrapper script
B that calls your other script.
B
B #!/bin/sh
B echo Stating Daemon Now
B /path/to/mainscript
You might be better off using daemon to make sure you're detached from
the controlling terminal. Other
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:29:30AM -0700, Nerius Landys wrote:
Just a thought, you can use the screen utility depending on what you
are trying to do. For example if you want to start a job, long out of
the machine completely, and then return to your job to see how it's
running, you may choose
=
#!/bin/bash
# This script will sleep
# 50 times for 1 second in
# the background
main()
{
for ((i=0 ; i=50 ;i++))
do
sleep 1
let i++
done
}
main
# EOF
==
--
Best regards,
Daniel
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 13:02:00 -0600,
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com said:
C I got the impression this question was about a script backgrounding itself,
C though -- possibly creating a daemon using bash.
Same here. This seems a bit slimy, but it works (assuming you don't
already have an
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 13:02:00 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
. . . or use tmux instead of GNU Screen, if you like.
I got the impression this question was about a script backgrounding
itself, though -- possibly creating a daemon using bash.
Maybe using detach (from ports) is a
I tried
bg $$
but $$ is the current process invoked just as $! is the process
of a backgrounded process started by that shell.
So, can I make a shell script background itself after
starting?
Right now, I remind my coworkers to append the after the
script name. the bg command expects
Martin McCormick wrote:
So, can I make a shell script background itself after
starting?
You could run all your code in a sub-shell:
#!/bin/sh
(
#your script here
)
or in a shell function:
old_script()
{
#your script here
}
old_script $*
Perhaps the second way
From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of
Martin McCormick
I tried
bg $$
but $$ is the current process invoked just as $! is the process
of a backgrounded process started by that shell.
So, can I make a shell script
Just a thought, you can use the screen utility depending on what you
are trying to do. For example if you want to start a job, long out of
the machine completely, and then return to your job to see how it's
running, you may choose to run screen.
screen bash
(Press Control-A then d)
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