Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 18:32:46 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: jacks@sage-american.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running script in background Message-ID: <3C5CA14E.1050004@owt.com> References: <3.0.5.32.20020202202139.01917078@mail.sage-american.com>
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jacks@sage-american.com wrote: > I have a script that is to run continuously (sleeps 30 & loops) at root to > monitor an activity and if it sees a change, it runs another program. I > believe that can be run in the background, but don't recall how to do it. > > If the script were called #!/bin/sh silentwatch > What would be the command to launch it in the bg...??? Well, you can have combinations of "command &". If you want to leave it running and log of, you can "nohup" it. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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