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From: jellybean stonerfish on 17 Nov 2009 09:53 On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:14:31 +0000, Mike Jones wrote: > I need to spawn a bash shell, from a bash shell, that doesn't die when > the original is killed. > > From an rxvt, call... > > $> rxvt -e somescript.sh > > ...then kill the parent but leave the child running "somescript.sh" > independantly. > > Clues? Does your target machine have 'screen'?
From: Mike Jones on 17 Nov 2009 20:21
Responding to jellybean stonerfish: > On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:14:31 +0000, Mike Jones wrote: > >> I need to spawn a bash shell, from a bash shell, that doesn't die when >> the original is killed. >> >> From an rxvt, call... >> >> $> rxvt -e somescript.sh >> >> ...then kill the parent but leave the child running "somescript.sh" >> independantly. >> >> Clues? > > Does your target machine have 'screen'? Already covered now. The trick I needed was to sleep the parent script 2 before exiting. Rough hack, yes, but it saved things tripping over each other, which seemed to be the problem on this particular carpy MOBO. ;\ Cheers. -- *=( http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/ *=( For all your UK news needs. |