File Running

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi All

I have made a script to send out mass mailing (opt-in list) and I have it set to send out a certain amount of emails to stop the server overloading.

The trouble is, I am executing the file from an SSH window and the file normally takes more than 10/15 minutes to run - by which time by terminal has timed out - will the perl file finish running? Or will it stop when my sesstion ends?

If there is a better way for me to do this to ensure it runs fully please let me know

Thanks

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Re: File Running by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jan 14, 2003 at 14:59 UTC
`nohup your_command arguments &` [download] Abigail	[reply] [d/l]
Re: File Running by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 14, 2003 at 15:56 UTC
`man screen` Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re: File Running by vek (Prior) on Jan 14, 2003 at 15:27 UTC
You could ~~place it in the background~~ `nohup` it as Abigail-II suggests or just run it as a cron job. To ensure that it runs successfully, have the program write to a log when it is finished. Update: Thanks for pointing out my mistake dug, not enough caffeine yet :-) -- vek --	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: File Running by dug (Chaplain) on Jan 14, 2003 at 15:39 UTC
Just a bit of claification. Running the process in the background won't help by itself. It is `nohup` that is the meat of Abigail-II's suggestion. It makes the process immune to hangup signals and sends the output to a non-tty. -- dug	[reply] [d/l]
Re: File Running by osama (Scribe) on Jan 14, 2003 at 17:31 UTC
Just a note, some hosts such as Pair Networks (my first host, I no longer use them) have a "Reaper Process" that would kill any process not belonging to a logged on user and/or taking a very long time... There are so many ready-made mailing list managers, why reinvent the wheel by programming your own and running it through ssh?	[reply]