Might you have to launch bash with the -m option? as in #!!/bin/bash
-m in the head of the shell script?
-m Monitor mode. Job control is enabled. This option is on
by default for interactive shells on systems
that support it (see JOB CONTROL above).
Background processes run in a separate process group and a line
containing their exit status is printed upon
their completion.
Perhaps it is not on by default unless run interactively?
Of course... I am assuming you are talking about bash...
On Feb 12, 2008 5:29 PM, willhill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd like to use a shell script to start two process at once, wait a while and
> then kill them both. Starting them manually, I'd just use the & redirector
> but I can't figure out how to do the same thing in a script. When I try it,
> the script waits for one job to be finished. For example:
>
> kwrite &
> konqueror &
> sleep 5
> killall kwrite
> killall konqueror
>
> won't start konqueror till I kill kwrite manually and the sleep does not start
> until konqueror is finished, then I kill processes that don't exist.
>
> I poked around Google for a while and Linux in a nutshell but found nothing
> but fork bombs. There has got to be a better way.
>
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