Another trick is to use the "at" command to run things unassociated with the
terminal:

print "dsmc sched 2>&1 >/dev/null" | at now


Robert Clark wrote:

> inittab shouldn't have the problem in the first place.
>
> And a way to work around the "nohup" problem is to not
> use ksh to run dsmc.
>
> (while in ksh)
> $bsh
> $nohup dsmc sched 2>&1 >/dev/null &
> $exit
> (now back in ksh)
>
> (Seems to work well.)
>
> [RC]
>
> On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:23:48PM -0700, Joe Faracchio wrote:
> > DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING!!!!!
> > thanks Frank McClean , This worked!!!!!  (now can I get it into
> > INITTAB????)
> >
> > As you said I did:
> >
> > %vi strtsched
> > "strtsched" [New file]
> > #!/bin/ksh
> > start_sched O
> > dsmc sched > /dev/null 2>&1 &
> > trap start_sched O
> > exit
> > ~
> > "strtsched" [New file] 5 lines, 79 characters
> >
> > root@ucbackup2-on-[/]
> > %chmod +x strtsched
> >
> > root@ucbackup2-on-[/]
> > %strtsched
> > strtsched[2]: start_sched:  not found.
> >
> > root@ucbackup2-on-[/]
> > %ps -ef|grep dsmc
> >     root 17296     1   0 17:20:51  pts/1  0:00 dsmc sched
> >     root 20032 18642   2 17:20:57  pts/1  0:00 grep dsmc
> >
> > Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley
> >  Private mail on any topic should be directed to :
> >    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > On Wed, 9 May 2001, McClean, Frank wrote:
> >
> > > Put this in a file and execute the file as root:
> > >
> > > #!/bin/ksh
> > > start_sched O
> > > dsmc sched > /dev/null 2>&1 &
> > > trap start_sched O
> > > exit
> > >
> > >
> > > This is from Curt Schriever at IBM support. IC26843 for AIX4.3.3
> > > You may get a false error stating that "start_sched not found",
> > > but the scheduler will stay running when you exit.
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Dearman, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 3:14 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: AIX Help
> > >
> > >
> > > I am trying to run the "nohup dsmc sched 2> /dev/null &" command on my AIX
> > > 4.3.3 machine and it works but every time I exit.  It says "There are jobs
> > > running"  so I exit again and whe I check the dsmc sched process is not
> > > running.  I thought the nohup command was suppose to let process run even
> > > after you logout.  What am I doing wrong.
> > >
> > > Thanks
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