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Is nohup necessary from cron

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newDBA

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I am writing a ksh script to be run from cron. In the script I execute a command, which I run using nohup when working from the command line. If the command is run from cron (as root), is nohup still necessary?
 
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no.

cron will run the job until its done

Good luck,
Steve
 
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