starting background process and logging out

[Karl M]

Hi All...

This is a Windows NT class behavior. It is why I launch keychain as a 
service...so it survives logout.

HTH,

...Karl

>From: Igor Pechtchanski To: "Maloney, Michael" Subject: Re: starting 
>background process and logging out
>Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 21:54:29 -0400 (EDT)
>
>On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Maloney, Michael wrote:
>
> > I am having a problem using cygwin on both Windows 2k/2003. When I send
> > a cmd into the background and then log out of the system, the process
> > dies on me. I am using Ataman Telnet Server to login but that doesn't
> > seem to be a factor.
> >
> > I have tried nohup without any luck as well.
> >
> > nohup startWebLogic.cmd > /dev/null&
> >
> > Does anyone have any other ideas for getting this process to stick?
>
>"setsid startWebLogic.cmd > /dev/null 2>&1"
>(you have to close both stdout and stderr).
>
>If .cmd means a glorified batch file, you could also try
>"cygstart --hide startWebLogic.cmd > /dev/null 2>&1".
>
>HTH,
>	Igor
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