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Title: How to Leave scripts running when you logoff, and exit nicely when sent a SIGTERM signal
Section: Tech Tips
Category: System Management
URL: http://wikis.sun.com/display/BigAdmin/How+to+Leave+scripts+running+when+you+logoff%2C+and+exit+nicely+when+sent+a+SIGTERM+signal

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How to Leave scripts running when you logoff, and exit nicely when sent a SIGTERM signal
URL: http://wikis.sun.com/display/BigAdmin/How+to+Leave...

Description: Tech tip about the trap command. Mainly to highlight its usefulness as opposed to using the nohup command, cron commad, at command, or other ways to have a script picked up by the init process as a parent.

Tip also shows the usefulness of trapping the SIGTERM, 15, signal and running commands just before a script exits.

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Submitter: Ross Moffatt

 
 


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