Can't you just run it as a background task ("&<command>")?
-Jason
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> From: BlaineNewsletters(@yahoo)
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> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 12:24 PM
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> Subject: Launch a separate process(terminal window) from
> Ant [Linux]
>
>
> I'm trying to launch a separate process from Ant (call
> Weblogic's startup
> script, startWebLogic.sh) in a new window, and have the
> original window run
> in parallel.
> This is no problem within Win2000. I use the exec task to
> call "start" to
> launch a new window and give it the command line parameters for
> startWebLogic.cmd
> When trying to use the exec task for Linux, I can't
> accomplish the same
> thing. I've tried various different methods (xterm, sh)
> but without success.
> I can get a new terminal launched and weblogic runs, but
> the originating
> terminal waits for weblogic to complete before continuing.
>
> I haven't been able to figure out a way to correctly do
> this and I was
> hoping somebody else had. As a last resort, people have
> suggested I call
> "java" and then use "fork" to return control back to Ant.
> Any suggestions?
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------
> ---------------------------------------------------
> <!--method #1-->
>
> <target name="start.weblogic_600" >
> <exec dir="${appsrv.home}" executable="start"
> os="Windows 2000,Windows
> NT">
> <arg line="startWebLogic.cmd" />
> <env key="BEA_HOME" value="${bea.home}" />
> </exec>
> <exec dir="${appsrv.home}/config/mydomain"
> executable="/bin/sh"
> os="Linux,Solaris">
> <arg line="./startWebLogic.sh " />
> </exec>
> </target>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------
> ---------------------------------------------------
> <!--method #2-->
>
> <target name="start.weblogic_600" >
> <exec dir="${appsrv.home}" executable="start" os="Windows
> 2000,Windows NT">
> <arg line="startWebLogic.cmd" />
> <env key="BEA_HOME" value="${bea.home}" />
> </exec>
> <exec
> executable="${appsrv.home}/config/mydomain/startWebLogicIn
> XTerm.sh"
> os="Linux,Solaris"/>
> </target>
>
> ------------------------------Contents of
> startWebLogicInXTerm.sh-----------------------------------
> ------------------
> ----
> #!/bin/sh
> pushd /usr/local/bea/wlserver6.0/config/mydomain
> xterm -e ".startWebLogic.sh" &
> popd
>
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> ------------------
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>
> Blaine Kendall, QA Developer
> Everypath Canada Corp | www.everypath.com
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