shell script -> starting a process detached from the parent process in the background

[gimli]

hello,

i have 2 problems in shell script, which i could not solve.

I will start in the main script another shell script, but the main script should go on directly, without waiting for the started script. Like starting a shell script in the background but independent from the parent shell/process.

so the main script schould start another script without waiting till its ends and this process must be independent from other processes. So that i kann kill a terminal in witch the main script was started, without ending the process in the background!

thanks

[daverj]

nohup cmd &

nohup lets you exit without killing child processes. & puts the command in the background.

davidj

[gimli]

i have tested it with "nohup cmd &" in the main script. i have started the main script in a xterm. wehen the main script is finished, the shell scrpt witch was started with "nohup ..." is running in the background.
BUT:
When i close the xterm, the shell script "nohup .." in the background, will be killed!

ben

[daverj]

so, you are running a script from the commandline and in that script you call another script using nohup?

Try running the main script with nohup.

davidj

[gimli]

yes.

running main script with nohup also does not work!

thanks