Re: Re: asynchronous launch of a script

On 6/26/2011 7:58 PM, Jim Giner wrote:

You mean - you want a second thread to run independently of your current "running" script? A wonderful thing to do and helpful for long intenesive processes but do you really want to go thru the hassles of managing two processes? Won't you have to verify the results of your offshoot and react to unexpected circumstances? Otherwise, what are you doing that would not require such complex management?

Having an OpenBSD server I use a thing called nohup. I have a shell script that starts/stops things for me nohup /usr/bin/ssh -2 -N -f -L $L_IP:$L_PORT:$R_IP:$R_PORT root@localhost 1>/dev/null This starts a ssh tunnel port forwarding for me with a from and to port assignment. But, one crucial thing you haven't told us is what OS you are trying to do this on. Jim