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- From: naam@cecer.army.mil (Ramez Naam)
- Subject: running background programs from startup scripts
- Message-ID: <naam.722289168@lorax.cecer.army.mil>
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- Organization: US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:52:48 GMT
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- Since noone in comp.unix.questions seems to know:
-
- I'm having trouble forcing a c-shell script to be executed in the
- background from my .login. Just enterring
- myprogram_name &
- in the .login creates a self-spawning process. Is there anyway to
- get around this? Also, can anyone explain to me why this occurs?
-
- On a related note, what's the easiest way to cause *any* shell script
- to execute another script in the background, and then terminate without
- waiting for its child process to exit? Using
- exec program &
- also creates a self-spawning process. Any help on this at all would
- be appreciated.
-
- --
- Ramez Naam
- naam@lorax.cecer.army.mil
-
- --
- Ramez Naam
- naam@lorax.cecer.army.mil
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