backgroud process

trynew · July 20, 2002, 10:33am

Hi experts

How to write a shell program(sh) that running on the backgroud when foreground processing something, such as prompt ....... till the background process finished.

thx

hell666 · July 20, 2002, 3:21pm

Just include the & at the end of your shell script when you run. Like:

sh script &

peter.herlihy · July 21, 2002, 5:47pm

Have a look at "nohup" as well...

bby123456 · July 23, 2002, 4:13am

nohup command &

peter.herlihy · July 23, 2002, 5:53pm

Oh yeah....and once the program is running in the background you can kill it wil a ctrl+c...if it runs for a long time and you need to stop it - you'll need to KILL it.

ps -fu username

Then 'kill <<PID>>' where the PID is the processid column int he ps output.

Quite important really if the process isn't self terminating!