Script Question

[David Gavin]

 Mike,

   You need a "nohup" in there to detach the started processes from the
shell that started them - without the nohup, the children die when the
parent terminates.

 i.e.   sudo -b -u tomcat nohup /opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh

 Dave Gavin

On Fri, May 6, 2005 14:25, Mike McGrath said:
> I've got a publishing script for some users to publish a couple of java
> apps onto a test server.  The end of the script looks like this:
>
> ## RESTART_TOMCAT gets set to 1 earlier on in the script....
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> if [ $RESTART_TOMCAT -eq 1 ]
> then
>         echo "- Startup Tomcat"
>         sudo -b -u tomcat /opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh
> #        sudo -b -u tomcat /opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh &
> #       sudo -u tomcat /opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh &
> fi
> echo "- Tailing CATALINA.OUT"
> tail -f /opt/tomcat/logs/catalina.out
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> A user would ssh in, run the script and at the end, watch the logs roll
> by.  Normally they'd hit control+C, log out and everything would be
> fine.  If they just close the window though, it not only ends their
> session and kills the shell but also kills tomcat.  I've commented out
> the two other ways I've tried it, neither one helps.  I'm running FC3.
> Anyone know what's going on?
>
> 	-Mike
>
>
>
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