Unfortunately, this is by design. <exec> waits for the child process to complete. We may have a new <spawn> for Ant 1.6 for an equivalent of <exec> that 'starts and forgets' child processes. I'm not sure it would work, but have you tried to <exec> a shell script that does "httpd &"? The script would complete, and ant would have the 'hand' back. --DD
-----Original Message----- From: Gabriel Pack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 5:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Resin on Mac OS X I would like to have Ant start Resin as part of a deployment process. Previously, I was developing on Windows 2000. I had Resin set up as an NT service. I used the exec task to issue a "net start" command, and everything worked fine. I've moved over to Mac OS X now, and the command to start Resin as a daemon process is "httpd start". When I issue this from a shell prompt, Resin spawns in the background with no problems. If I try to exec the command from within Ant, Resin starts; but it hangs Ant, as if Resin isn't starting in the background. I even tried exec on "httpd &", but Ant says that "&" is illegal. My software versions are Ant 1.4.1, JVM 1.3.1, Mac OS X 10.1.5, and Resin 2.1.1. Any insights would be appreciated. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
