RE: nohup jobs

Kommareddy, Srinivas (MED, Wissen Infotech) scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon:

> Hi,
>
> But still my rcp is running.

that's just what it should be doing. like Rachel said, you submitted it to the background with the "&" at the end of the command line. so it runs in the background. the problem is you *ALSO* submitted the nohup job to the background with the "&" at the end it *IT'S* command line. so it goes like this:

--nohup job starts in the background
--it submits the rcp job in the background
--rcp job returns control to the nohup job
--nohup job is done [it submitted the rcp job and got control back]
--it returns "Done" and control to the foreground process.

to have the nohup job run until the rcp job finishes you have to either: 1) remove the "&" from the end of the nohup command line or
2) remove the "&" from the rcp job command line

doing either of the above will ensure that control is not returned to the controlling process until the job is finished.

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