Hi! I am giving up. For at least an hour I tried to write a shell script (t obe run by cron) that start another program and sends it into the background.
For example, I tried: #! /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/myprogram & or: #! /bin/sh nohup /usr/local/bin/myprogram & But no matter how I did it, I ended up with the program running as it should but the starting shell script (let's call it test.sh) became a zombie: Output from "ps auxwwwww": spiegl 32585 1.7 0.0 0 0 Z 0:00 (test.sh <zombie>) What am I doing wrong??? Please someone enlighten me! Thanks so much, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ --------- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) ------- _`\<,_ _`\<,_ _>(_) (_)/<_ \_| \ _|/' \/ ------ (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_) (_) (_) (_)' _\o_ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~