How to resolve the background proess issue in HPUX

[shameemsoft]

Dear,

Some background process is running in HPUX11.31 server.

But it is killed when the session is closed.

Process should be running even after I close the session.

How to resolve this issue. Kindly help me on this.

Thanks & Regards
Shameem.

[Venkatesh BL]

You could use the 'nohup' command. Check out the man page.

[Roopesh Francis_1]

use
nohup &

Thanks

[Hakki Aydin Ucar]

nohup ;
The nohup command executes another command with the hangup and quit signals ignored. Usually a process is attached to a terminal (TTY) or a pseudoterminal (pty). If the user logs out from that terminal, the process also terminates. The nohup command stops process termination in such a case.

Syntax:

# nohup myprog &

[Viktor Balogh]

just for completeness: if your session might have some interactivity, it's best to use the screen utility as nohup cannot handle stdin. download the latest screen from the Porting and Archiving Centre, it has a GNU license.

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/screen-4.0.3/

[Viktor Balogh]

here is a nice howto for using screen:

http://jmcpherson.org/screen.html

[Raj D.]

shameemsoft ,

You can use nohup command to keep the program running , even if you closed that session.

Example:
# nohup myprogram_or_command &

You will see the nohup.out file later and all the stdout informations will be logged there.


Cheers,
Raj.

[Torsten.]

If you say **it is** a background process, you should tell a bit more, e.g. a "ps -ef" for this process, how you start it etc. ...