Re: /sbin/sh behaviour

From: Chris Cox (ccox_nopenotthis_at_airmail.net)
Date: 04/16/04

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    Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 17:54:34 -0500

    joe durusau wrote:
    > Yes, my shell is /sbin/sh. The complete sequence I used was,
    > log in to the machine from a remote location
    >
    > su to root
    > set the DISPLAY variable
    > start netscape

    nohup it, redirect IO and background it.

    nohup netscape >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null &

    This will disassociate netscape with the shell
    process and it will get owned by init.

    In normal Bourne shell, Sun's man page suggests there's
    no way to not have jobs ignore the hup signal when the
    shell exits. Of course, you could create a wrapper and trap
    the hup signal, I suppose, with a shell script.

    The manpage recommends using jsh or ksh instead for better
    job control.

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