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Date:	Wed, 6 Jul 2005 21:54:29 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To:	"Maloney, Michael" <mmaloney AT rsasecurity DOT com>
cc:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: starting background process and logging out
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On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Maloney, Michael wrote:

> I am having a problem using cygwin on both Windows 2k/2003. When I send
> a cmd into the background and then log out of the system, the process
> dies on me. I am using Ataman Telnet Server to login but that doesn't
> seem to be a factor.
>
> I have tried nohup without any luck as well.
>
> nohup startWebLogic.cmd > /dev/null&
>
> Does anyone have any other ideas for getting this process to stick?

"setsid startWebLogic.cmd > /dev/null 2>&1"
(you have to close both stdout and stderr).

If .cmd means a glorified batch file, you could also try
"cygstart --hide startWebLogic.cmd > /dev/null 2>&1".

HTH,
	Igor
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