nohup

[Angela Swyers_1]

I have a job that is running with nohup. It is prompting me fro a response. How do I pass that into the script so that it will continue?

[Bill Hassell]

Well, as you might expect, an interactive program (something that requires you type an answer) is not suitable for batch (background) jobs. There is no simple answer. If at all possible, use a program that does not require a keyboard response. If the program allows for command line options, put all the required options on the command line. Perhaps the program will accept stdin as a source for answers to questions. You'll have to ask the author of the program if this is possible.

Otherwise, you'll have to get a copy of the expect program (which requires TCL Toolkit to also be installed). You can find expect and tcltk at http://hpux.connect.org.uk/

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

if you can predict the answer the programme needs then you can provide it like
nohup command < answers

hth,

Michael

[Devender Khatana]

Hi,

You can bring background jobs in forground with fg command.Alongwith this you can check all running background jobs with "jobs" command. It will work only if shell through which this job was started has not been terminated yet.

fg will bring the n number background job into foreground. Where n is the job number from the output of jobs command.

HTH,
Devender

[Geoff Wild]

You may also want to look at an expect script.

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Tcl/expect-5.42/

Rgds...Geoff