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From: rabbe@infolog.se (Rabbe Fogelholm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: How do you create a persistent background process from DM?
Message-ID: <218@infolog.se>
Date: 13 Sep 90 11:06:40 GMT
References: <2411@dover.sps.mot.com>
Organization: Infologics, Sollentuna, Sweden
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In article <2411@dover.sps.mot.com> talent@spanky.sps.mot.com (Steve
Talent, Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector CAD) writes:

>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.
>
>(... text deleted ...) Am I missing something or is there no simple
way to do this?

I would suggest something like the following (tested on a node that
runs SR9.7, has /sys/spm/spm running, and BSD4.2 installed):

    /com/crp -on $NODEID -me -cpo '/bsd4.2/usr/bin/sleep 567'

The example starts a process that just sleeps for a while. It can be
inspected using 'ps x'. The technique should work for SysV too, but I
can't test that case.
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