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Commands tagged nohup

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nohup ./my-shell-script.sh &
2012-06-26 19:43:42
User: ankush108
Functions: nohup
Tags: nohup
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Nohup

After you execute a command (or shell script) in the background using

&, if you logout from the session, the command will get killed. To avoid

that, you should use nohup as shown below.

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eval <command> ${INBACK:-&}
2012-04-05 03:50:57
User: Zulu
Functions: eval
Tags: bash eval nohup
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Launch command in backgroup or not

If $INBACK is set, command will launch in foreground and inverse.

Very useful in script !

We could apply the inverse comportement like that :

eval command ${INBACK:+&}

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( trap '' 1; ( nice -n 19 sleep 2h && command rm -v -rf /garbage/ &>/dev/null && trap 1 ) & )
2009-10-10 04:43:44
User: AskApache
Functions: command nice rm sleep trap
Tags: bash trap sleep process nohup logout at askapache nice processes /dev/null HUP SIGHUP
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Schedule Nice Background Commands That Won't Die on Logout - Alternative to nohup and at

Check out the usage of 'trap', you may not have seen this one much. This command provides a way to schedule commands at certain times by running them after sleep finishes sleeping. In the example 'sleep 2h' sleeps for 2 hours. What is cool about this command is that it uses the 'trap' builtin bash command to remove the SIGHUP trap that normally exits all processes started by the shell upon logout. The 'trap 1' command then restores the normal SIGHUP behaviour.

It also uses the 'nice -n 19' command which causes the sleep process to be run with minimal CPU.

Further, it runs all the commands within the 2nd parentheses in the background. This is sweet cuz you can fire off as many of these as you want. Very helpful for shell scripts.

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echo "nohup command rm -rf /phpsessions 1>&2 &>/dev/null 1>&2 &>/dev/null&" | at now + 3 hours 1>&2 &>/dev/null
2009-08-18 07:31:17
User: AskApache
Functions: at echo
Tags: cronjob schedule nohup background at
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Schedule a script or command in x num hours, silently run in the background even if logged out

This is helpful for shell scripts, I use it in my custom php install script to schedule to delete the build files in 3 hours, as the php install script is completely automated and is made to run slow.

Does require at, which some environments without crontab still do have.

You can add as many commands to the at you want. Here's how I delete them in case the script gets killed. (trapped)

atq |awk '{print $1}'|xargs -iJ atrm J &>/dev/null

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nohup /bin/sh myscript.sh 1>&2 &>/dev/null 1>&2 &>/dev/null&
2009-08-18 07:24:52
User: AskApache
Functions: nohup
Tags: job control nohup logout background execute
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Silently Execute a Shell Script that runs in the background and won't die on HUP/logout

This command runs your shell script in the background with no output of any kind, and it will remain running even after you logout.

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