X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 22:01:00 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Unable to disown process From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id p66L1LIn008547 On 6 July 2011 21:15, Andrew wrote: > On 7/6/2011 12:12 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: >> You can use the 'setsid' utility from the util-linux package to invoke >> a program in its own session, i.e. without connection to the terminal >> it is invoked from. For example: >> >> setsid ssh -NL 1119:news.mozilla.org:119 \ >>          -L 2119:news.gmane.org:119 \ >>          -L 3119:nntp.perl.org:119 \ >>          andrew@defaria.com >> >> No need for 'nohup', redirections, backgrounding, or 'disown' with this. > > Actually I still need backgrounding as without it my ~/bin/tunnel just hangs > on the setsid command... Hmm, I'm afraid I don't know why that happens when setsid is invoked from a script. This returns immediately: $ setsid sleep 10 As does this: $ bash -c 'setsid sleep 10' But this doesn't: $ echo 'setsid sleep 10' > sleep.sh; bash sleep.sh Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple