nohup question

[Ignite_2]

Hello,

could you please help me...

Is it possible to apply 'nohup' on process running in foreground, to let it continue after logout?

Thanks in advance

[Dennis Handly]

Typically you use nohup to put it in the background:
nohup command &

[Ignite_2]

Hi

yes, normally it's like that.

I have started copying data and didn't expected it can take so long.

Is there any possibility, how to apply on running process from another session 'nohup'?

[Dennis Handly]

>how to apply on running process from another session 'nohup'?

I don't know of any.

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

Hi,

You can put "all the required files to copied " in script. than you can let it continue after logout?

Example:-

# vi copy.sh
cp -p /opt/oracle/dbf* /opt/oracle/source

# nohup ./copy.sh &

Hope this helps,

Thanks,
JOhnson

[Ski Ride]

Hi Ignite

I believe you cannot use nohub on a process that is already running.

I believe this is wat is ur question.

[sujit kumar singh]

Hi


This is alwayu suggested to start a process with a nohup as in your case so that the process keeps up running in case the executing terminal is logged out or killed.
regards
sujit

[hbhua_231]

I found that if you invoked another shell, then ran the nohup script, then exited your child shell, the nohup would continue to run properly.

sh
nohup sar -u 5 5 &
exit

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good luck.

[Heironimus]

If your shell is modern enough you can ctrl-Z to suspend the foreground process, "bg" to resume it in the background, and "disown %jobnum" to tell the shell to forget about it and not send a SIGHUP on exit. A little more to type, but it produces the same end result as running via nohup.