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I'm trying to write a kick-off script for a program. I'll be sticking it in my crontab, but from time to time, I'll have to restart it manually, presumably from just copying from the crontab. What's worse, is that otherp eople will be doing the same thing, so I need to make it rather friendly.

I want the users to just run the script with it's arguments, and have them returned back to the prompt .I figured it would be easier to just have exec run the program, sending it to nohup. That works fine, but I do not get my prompt back, even if I run something like
exec("nohup", "/path/to/prog", "args", "&")

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In fact, it seems that it passes & as an argument, as I can see it when I grep out the process.

Conversely, running the script with an ampersand appended doesn't give me my prompt back either.

Reading up, I see that exec replaces the currently running perl with whatever program exec kicks off. That's all fine and dandy, but I don't know what it means for me in the long run.

Thanks

In reply to Starting a process and dying... by GaijinPunch

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