Unix scripting help

Gordon Tillman got at mindspring.com
Thu Sep 29 12:38:53 EDT 2005


Howdy Chris,


On Sep 29, 2005, at 11:14, Chris Sheffield wrote:

> I can't get this to go through for some reason.  So here it is again.
>
>
> I hope I'm not totally off topic here.
>
> I've got an installer in Rev that has to start a process under OS X  
> using the shell function.  I'm able to get the process to start  
> just fine using a command line script.  But the problem I'm having  
> is this particular process does not return any value when started,  
> and the shell command is not exiting because of this (at least  
> that's what I assume is happening).  So my script just kind of  
> hangs at that point.  The process I'm starting is the Valentina  
> database server.
>
> So what I'm looking for is a way to run my script, which starts the  
> process, but include in my script something that says, "Okay, I'm  
> finished now", and will allow my handler to go on at that point.   
> This is the current script I'm running with the shell function:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> pw=[PasswordHere]  -- this is obtained earlier with an  
> authentication dialog
> echo $pw | sudo -S /Library/RNSEServer/RNSEServer &
> exit

What if you replaced this line as follows:

echo $pw | sudo -S /usr/bin/nohup /Library/RNSEServer/RNSEServer &

--gordy



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