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Howdy,

I've got a quick question. I need to run a program at work and it has to run overnight. I don't have access to the computer itself, just an ssh window.
I was told to run it as: nohup ./program
and that would keep it running even if I logged off. I don't know if I'm doing it wrong (checked manpages, etc) but it always seem to stop working after I log off and the nohup.out file is empty.

Any ideas on what might be wrong and/or how to fix it?

Thanks, again,

Mule

Hmmm....

It sounds like the shell isn't doing job control properly, but that's just speculation.

If nohup doesn't work for you, you can always try to do what it does by yourself. Basically, disassociate your process from your controlling terminal.

This can be done by backgrounding a process that you run in a subshell.

So, if you used to : ./nohup program

Try this instead: (./program &) <---- With the parentheses and ampersand

Then do: ps -ef|grep program

and you should see that it's parent process id is 1 (init). That should make sure it keeps running even when your shell exits or dies.

Hope that helps!

, laum