sto;518376 Wrote:
> I did a bit of experimentation with the SrvrPowerCtrl function to run an
> external script that showed Powernap that SBS was playing but it just
> kept hanging SBS. The script I created was just 'sleep 60' then I added
> the name of the script to the powernap config file, the script stayed in
> the process list for the duration of the sleep but like I say for some
> reason SBS kept hanging, I need to have another go...
You did start sleep in the background (with "&"), did you ? Because it
looks like SBS could have been waiting for the sleep to end before
returning.
Something like this detaches properly:
Code:
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o...@otto:~$ date
Thu Feb 18 23:37:28 CET 2010
o...@otto:~$ sleep 30 &
[1] 7860
o...@otto:~$ date
Thu Feb 18 23:37:37 CET 2010
o...@otto:~$ ps
PID TTY TIME CMD
7814 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
7860 pts/0 00:00:00 sleep
7863 pts/0 00:00:00 ps
o...@otto:~$ date
Thu Feb 18 23:38:01 CET 2010
o...@otto:~$
[1]+ Done sleep 30
o...@otto:~$ date
Thu Feb 18 23:38:13 CET 2010
o...@otto:~$
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epoch1970
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