Make script run while user is not logged on

[stokes]

I've created a script which does some monitoring and sends e-mails when various conditions are met. Trouble is it only seems to work while I am logged on - if I start it using "./script &" and then log off - it stops working. I also tried launching it using "nohup ./script &" ... same thing happens. I feel I am missing an easy trick here. What am I doing wrong?

[coopstah13]

you could use screen to do this pretty easily, i forget the arguments to it, but its pretty easy you basically create a new "screen" in the terminal and then you can execute your script, then "detach" the screen and it will keep running in the background, you can also reopen that screen and cancel execution if you want

[matonb]

screen

Awesome tool, yet so many people haven't come across it!

[stokes]

Yep screen seems to do the trick, many thanks!

[scm]

nohup was invented for just this situation. man nohup for details.