[NTLUG:Discuss] slightly off topic, but still a *nix...

[Chris Cox]

Use nohup and &.

Not sure why this is not working for you.
Perhaps they are not really dying, but are having
difficulty because they are not sufficiently
dettached from the terminal device.  Try redirecting
stdin, stdout and stderr and see if that helps.

Fred James wrote:
> 
> The problem is to start a process and have it continue to completion
> even after I quit my session.
> 
> I have been able to do this on some *nix systems with nohup and &, but
> here I am on Solaris8 and all child processes die when I end my session.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Please don't suggest cron, it is not allowed in this case even though it
> would be the perfect answer and I do have access to crontab.
> 
> --
> ...make every program a filter...
> 
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