I've just written a very simple script to rsh to about 50 of my clients and run another script to stop and restart a service... The problem is that the service starts a java daemon and although I'm putting it in the background it doesn't come back to a prompt and wants me to hit enter. After I hit enter then the prompt comes back. That's fine if I log into the machine manually and start the service, but with my rsh script, it hangs on the first line because it's waiting for an enter.

How do I make my script ignore any output so it'll go to the next line? This is an example of what I'm using.

This is very simplistic. I have stop, start and restart but what I have above is basically the line I'm trying to run. Thanks for the help!

1. *.js is usually javascript code, not JAVA
2. if its your own code you can fix it internally
3. if its closed src, try the Expect utility, its designed to automatically handle progs that expect human interaction.

Thanks for the input! Actually, there is no file extension on my daemon process. I just used *.js to illustrate it was a file. Bad choice I guess... lol Unfortunately it's not my code other so I can't change it. I also neglected to say that these are Solaris systems, but I'm thinking that my problem should be independent of it's Unix type. I just thought that there was a way that you can make a command run and not wait for anything return.

Using nohup with a & at the end should work. If it's not, then it's the Java application itself after testing my own commands with nohup with an & at the end, it came back to the prompt. Time to go talk to the developers I'd say.

Thanks for the input Trickykid... I think you're right... lol