Background service!

[jun27]

Hi I'm wondering,
Is there a way to run an application as a background service on HP-UNIX? I'm a complete noobie! Basically I got an application that runs as an NT service on windows. This application is cross-platform and I am wondering if I could run it as some background service on HP-unix such that even if the user is logged off it still executes in the background?

Please help with information surrounding this.

Regards
James

 

[KenCunningham]

Hi James. man nohup and use & at the end of the command to start the application, like so:

nohup <application start script> &

The nohup prevents the job from being killed when the user who initiated it logs off. HTH.

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