Little confused here
When i go to run sudo nohup ./script.ksh &
I dont get asked for a password.
It starts a process ID, I can see it when i do a ps -ef | grep script.
But I dont get an output file from my script, so its not doing anything.
What gives?
does it have to do the "&" ?
No I did not recently run a SUDO command, so the credentials are not cached.
Thoughts?
Not being asked for a password could be a result of NOPASSWD option in the /etc/sudoers file.
Can you post the script here? Also, try to use /usr/bin/nohup instead of the shell's built-in nohup. This implementation of nohup sends standard output to nohup.out (in the current working directory, if denied, in $HOME dir) by default and can be redirected like this:
nohup COMMAND >FILE
Which shell has a nohup builtin?
Regards,
Alister
C-shell has a built-in nohup command.
[unixuser@blue ~]$ csh
[unixuser@blue ~]$ nohup
nohup: Can't from terminal.
[unixuser@blue ~]$ which nohup
nohup: shell built-in command.
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By the way, actually, I just read the post again and now I can tell for sure it's happening because of the '&'. The whole "sudo" process is being moved to the back ground.
To avoid this, nohup has to be called from within the script. You just have to fork out a separate process and put it in background. All has to be done from within the script. I might be able to tell the exact changes need to be done only after seeing the script.
Yep, ok well if i do this without the "&" it works as it should thanks!