topic Re: Scripting question in Operating System - HP-UX

Scripting question

TheJuiceman — Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:04:14 GMT

I want to be able to pass a command under "ksh -m". Basically, I want to do this:

ksh -m

continue with process

How can I script this? Thanks.

Re: Scripting question

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 14 Aug 2003 23:15:45 GMT

Hi Bobby:

# nohup my.sh &

See the man pages for 'nohup' for more information.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Scripting question

Graham Cameron_1 — Fri, 15 Aug 2003 06:40:25 GMT

You can also use the job control features of the shell. See the "Jobs" section in "man ksh".

Basically you can start up a process from the current shell, eg:

# sleep 3600 # <-- Put your meaningful command here

Then hit ^Z to send a STOP signal to the job, you will see something like:
[1] + Stopped sleep 3600

And if you do a "ps" or a "jobs" command you will see it as stopped.

You can then issue a "bg" command to allow the job to continue in background. You can carry on doing other stuff while it's running.

Note that if a background job requires tty input, it will stop, and you will have to use "fg" to bring it to foreground. A background job can normally write tty output unless you have done a "stty tostop".

Hope this helps, like I said, it's all in the man pages.

-- Graham

Re: Scripting question

Dave Walley — Fri, 15 Aug 2003 09:40:06 GMT

Can you give me some more detail, do you want to run an sql file or what?

Dave