Re: Newbie unix question

From: X Schiltz (joes@SKIPNET.COM)
Date: 02/06/98


Uh...doesn't it stay on all of the time anyways? Maybe it's just me bash,
but I can log on, log out, log on, log out, log onto mud, shutdown reboot,
and it's back up in 5 seconds(or less!) That's all.

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X Schiltz       MUD:dataserv.net 4000
(Joe Schilz)    homepage:http://www.skipnet.com/~joes/

On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Patrick Sullivan wrote:

> >    Is there anyway to make the autorun script run  without being
> >constantly logged in?
>
> 1) please turn off html in the future...it kinda screws up some email readers.
> 2) this is covered in the faq, so please read up on that. However, the
> answer to your question is to run the following in the circle directory
>
> nohup ./autorun &
>
> It will give you the process id for the autorun script, and use ps to find
> the circle one before you log out. This is in case you need to kill it in
> the future and at least on my server 'ps' only lists currently running ones
> (i.e. not ones you started on another tty), and 'top' is a pain to use. Oh
> yeah, you'll have to hit return/enter after you type in that command to get
> nohup loggin to run in the backround as well.
>
>
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