Background Job Issue

[dnvikram]

Good morning .

I am accessing a remote server via putty and started a weblogic server by using a script and placed that job in background using the & after the script name.The
weblogic script is running now.The problem I am facing is,I want to exit out of that specific putty session.But,I still want the weblogic server which was started by that script to be still running.When I try to exit out of the session by typing,"exit",the shell reminds me saying that,I still have some jobs running.

host1: /opt/testdomain/3.0> jobs -l
[1] + 18889 Running ./startWebLogic.sh&
host1: /opt/testdomain/3.0>

Now,how do I exit the putty session and still have the weblogic server running.The last time,I exited the putty session I remember the weblogic server process dying out.I cant afford this now as this is a development box.

Please suggest.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks a lot!

[kai12]

Hi dnvikram.

Once you close the putty session, your background process will be send a
hang-up signal. The usual response to this is for the process to terminate.

You can prevent this by using the nohup command:

nohup startWebLogic.sh &

Now when you exit the hang-up signal will be caught and your process should
continue to run. The output of your script will be redirected to a text file
in the working directory (called nohup.out or similar).

cheers, kai