Re: shell script run in backend

["Tom Reed" <tom@dkinbox.com>]

stem service as Jeremy Ardley suggests in a different reply.
>
> Exactly:
>
>   script > /tmp/script.log 2>&1 &
>
> (adjust paths to taste). For good measure, and if your shell
> has job control, it will output the job number and PID, like
> so:
>
>   [1] 15211
>
> (1 is the job number, 15211 is the PID, actual numbers will
> vary). You then issue
>
>   disown %1
>
> (assuming bash here), which lets your shell "forget" about job
> number 1 and keep it for messing around once you leave your
> shell (in some setups, terminating the shell might terminate
> the background jobs, but my memory might be fuzzy).
>

Thanks for all your helps.
I know convert it to a perl script and run it under App::Daemon for
background jobs.

regards
Tom


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