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Re: starting background process and logging out
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Karl M <karlm30 at hotmail dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com, mmaloney at rsasecurity dot com
- Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 00:40:24 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: starting background process and logging out
- References: <BAY108-F2797442B681C55D5BC24DEB5D80@phx.gbl>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Ugh, top-posting. Reformatted.
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Karl M wrote:
> > From: Igor Pechtchanski
> > To: "Maloney, Michael"
> > Subject: Re: starting background process and logging out
> > Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 21:54:29 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> > On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Maloney, Michael wrote:
> >
> > > I am having a problem using cygwin on both Windows 2k/2003. When I
> > > send a cmd into the background and then log out of the system, the
> > > process dies on me. I am using Ataman Telnet Server to login but
> > > that doesn't seem to be a factor.
> > >
> > > I have tried nohup without any luck as well.
> > >
> > > nohup startWebLogic.cmd > /dev/null&
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any other ideas for getting this process to stick?
> >
> > "setsid startWebLogic.cmd > /dev/null 2>&1"
> > (you have to close both stdout and stderr).
> >
> > If .cmd means a glorified batch file, you could also try
> > "cygstart --hide startWebLogic.cmd > /dev/null 2>&1".
>
> Hi All...
>
> This is a Windows NT class behavior. It is why I launch keychain as a
> service...so it survives logout.
FYI, on WinXP:
$ ps | grep sleep
$ ssh igor@localhost 'setsid sleep 80 >/dev/null 2>&1 &'
igor@localhost's password:
$ ps | grep sleep
6232 1 6232 6836 ? 1019 00:37:54 /usr/bin/sleep
$
with no extra processes hanging around, AFAICS.
Igor
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