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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de>
Subject:  Re: Background process with Cygwin
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* Corinna Vinschen (Mon, 6 Apr 2009 16:11:14 +0200)
> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL
> On Apr  6 09:51, Jeff Irwin wrote:
> >   I am running windows server 2003 with cygwin.  I
> > am attempting to get a bash script to continue to run in cygwin even
> > after I have logged out.
> 
> That's not possible.  Windows always kills all processes started
> within your logon session as soon as you leave the session.
> 
> If you want processes to run independently from your logon session,
> you have to start them as Windows service.

Or use task scheduler...

Thorsten


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