Re: nohup dies

["Pau Amaro-Seoane" <vim.unix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

| Just "setopt nohup" in your initialisation file

nope...

I tried that and the process died again... Same error

The only way is to start the simulation from ksh. Zsh stubbornly
refuses to nohup it...

I didn't try emulate ksh since I stick to zsh syntax and have billions
of zsh scripts.

Pau


2007/9/29, Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> "Pau Amaro-Seoane" wrote:
> > > nohup is not a shell builtin; it's simply an executable programme that's
> >
> > man nohup
> >
> > (...)
> >        NOTE:  your  shell may have its own version of nohup, which
> > usually supersedes the version described
> >        here.  Please refer to your shell's documentation for details
> > about the options it supports.
> > (...)
>
> Yes, I'm well aware nohup *may* be a shell builtin, but in zsh it
> isn't.  The easy way to check is to run "which nohup".
>
> > > A lot of other shells, I presume (but I haven't actually checked)
> > > including ksh, don't send SIGHUP to processes when the shell exits.
> >
> > But zsh is supposed to emulate ksh, right?
>
> Not unless you have "emulate ksh" in effect.  If you do, "setupt nohup"
> is turned on and you have the same (global) effect as in ksh (you don't
> need the "nohup" command at all).
>
> > nohup whatever should work regardless of shell.
>
> "nohup" does work; as I pointed out you're using it the wrong way.  The
> difference in ksh is that you don't need it at all; it's harmless if you
> do use it, but ksh doesn't send the HUP signal anyway.
>
> > And it _did_ in the
> > older version of zsh, now not anymore. Can you tell me why?
>
> Nothing here has changed, but as I suggested before your old setup may
> have had the "nohup" option turned on.
>
> > the "solution" for now is to launch the simulation with ksh... or
> > resort to screen... but it's a pity, I stick to zsh a lot
>
> Just "setopt nohup" in your initialisation file, or "emulate ksh" if
> you're set on ksh syntax generally.
>
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