On 30 Jun 2003 09:32:01 -0700 James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 > > > Still not getting the results I need .... The parent remains open in a > wait state for the child to complete. I can kill the parent without > affecting the child.. but the parent will not exit until the child > does.. I'm getting closer. Basically this is going into an rpm which is > part of a group of rpms. This one product that has to get installed > ahead of a number of others (dependencies) has a long self install > program that runs. There is no reason it can't run in the background > while the other rpms get installed. Doing this would cut totally > install of the "group" by about 50% is why I'm trying to to this. > Thanks again for the answers.... > > James > > > I'm experimenting ... If I find it all let ya'll know James, Haven't checked for the parent sticking around; but I used to start a task in background and then disown the job and disconnect from the remote host... let us know if that parent still hangs around in that scenario...
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