Comments on: How to close a telnet session without terminating the foreground process which is running

By: Frederick Tybalt

Frederick Tybalt — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:17:50 +0000

@karlberg74,
This can be done directly, here we go

$ nohup script1.ksh &

This will directly run the script at background and the script will be alive even if the session is closed

karlberg74 — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:56:11 +0000

Hi,

I know it’s been a long time since the last reply,

Is there a way to put a script automatically in the background from the get go?

Start the script (it is put automatically in the background) and then close the telnet session with nothing else to do?

Thanks for your time.

Frederick Tybalt — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:09:47 +0000

@Julien,
This holds good with SSH too..

@uygar,
Good… This too works…

uygar — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:13:54 +0000

If you use ‘ssh’ instead of telnet, you can use the ‘screen’ command for that. In order to start a script in the background use:

$ screen
//A new screen is created

$ ./script.sh
//Press Ctrl+A+D in order to detach the session, script still continues

In order to monitor the script later on, use screen command with -ls and -r options, such that:

To list all the screens:
$ screen -ls

To re-attach a previously started screen use:

$ screen -r #screen-id

James — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:54:15 +0000

The nohup with fedora does not support -p.

Julien CROUZET — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:04:28 +0000

God man … We’re in 2008 who use telnet ???
And you can do nohup command &