Unix scripting help

[Chris Sheffield]

I think I finally got this figured out.  Turns out, Sarah, your idea  
did work, but I had to redirect output to a file, just like you're  
doing.  And that made it so my script stopped hanging.  What's  
strange, though, is that when I look at the contents of the file that  
gets created it's empty, so I'm still not really sure what the  
problem was.  But at least it's working now, and having a little  
empty file get created is a small price to pay for not rebooting the  
user's machine.

Thanks for the help.

Chris

On Sep 29, 2005, at 2:41 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> Here is an example of a script I use that really does run in the  
> background.
>
>  put "ping -c1 -n "  & pIP into tShellCmd
>  put " > " & tFileName & " 2>&1 &" after tShellCmd
>  get shell(tShellCmd)
>
> I tried using the ampersand and it didn't work but this does. It
> writes it's output to a file which you may not need, but the crucial
> bit is the " 2>&1 &" which allows my Rev script to continue without
> waiting for the shell command to finish.
>
> You can feed your lines into the variable "tShellCommand" although you
> may not need the "exit" at all.
>
> I hope this helps as I detest installers that require me to do a
> reboot. I  feel it is nearly always due to lack of understanding or
> programmer laziness rather than because the system really needs to
> restart.
>
> Cheers,
> Sarah
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Chris Sheffield
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