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From: talent@spanky.sps.mot.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: How do you create a persistent background process from DM?
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Date: 12 Sep 90 06:46:30 GMT
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I need to start a background process from a display manager window that
will continue running after logout.  I've tried nohup, nice, and &.
The process is started from a /bin/csh script running in a DM window.

The problem is that any process started from a DM window will be stopped
at logout.

I can create a process that keeps running after logout by using cps.
cps creates a server process that is owned by "user".  This is unacceptable
because the process I am running must access several files.  In order to
make these files available to the server process they must be made
accessable by "user" and, therefore, they are made accessable to anyone
else who cares to create their own server process.

Am I missing something or is there no simple way to do this?


Steve Talent, Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector CAD
Tempe, AZ  602-897-5440,  talent@dover.sps.mot.com