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Non root user processes dies
Name: Stefan Date: February 19, 2003 at 02:36:28 Pacific OS: Solaris 8 CPU/Ram: doesn´t matter
Comment:
Hi! My problem: I run a background process as a non root user but when I close the terminal window the process dies and all child processes also. This does not happen when I start the process from a BASH shell though.
This is a java process and the line in the script that starts the process looks like this:
exec su $USER -c "exec my_commands > /dev/null 2>&1" &
Name: Hamid Date: February 19, 2003 at 05:01:28 Pacific
Reply:
Why not try nohup command, the process will continue to run when you terminate your session: try something like this: nohup su $USER -c "exec my_commands > /dev/null 2>&1" &
Mind you nohup may get confused with redirect ">" output as it produces its own output file called nohup.out
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Response Number 2
Name: Stefan Date: February 19, 2003 at 05:46:48 Pacific
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