On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 07:01, Pierre Fortin wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 05:51:48 -0700 (PDT) "David Guntner" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > > > > > No this is not spam for a talk show. :) I'm trying to find out how > > > to spawn a process from a shell script that becomes an independent > > > Parent process not a child process. Such so that if the Parent that > > > spawns it dies it doesn't die. What I need is to have the parent > > > process spawn the new process, then complete itself and die. While > > > the child becomes independent and continues it's life until it > > > completes it's actions. > > > > man nohup. > > > > --Dave > > also: man bash, see disown
Thankyou one and all. The obvious was staring me in the face and danged if I could see it. James
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