Hi guys,

After some play around, I've managed to write my own shell script which will start and stop some processes through a menu.

Users logon through putty to a remote server and they get presented a menu in which they can chose between a few options.

One of them is to start a postgreSQL server.
They also got the option to stop this server.

Now when I fire up this server through this menu it goes well. Untill they close putty.
This means all the processes being run by that user get terminated.

The funny thing is, as soon as I press the quit option in the menu, the menu ends and brings you back to the prompt.
If users close putty after that, the server keeps running without any problem.

Now you all have guessed, I'm trying to find a way to execute a different script when pressing the quit option.
One that will log the users off from the shell, leaving the processes running they have.

Hope someone can help me out as I'm starting to pull my hears of my head.

Kind regards and thank you for reading.

Jorge Valencia

"man nohup" may help you.

Cool, this partially helped. thanks.

Now I've come accross a different thing.

It partially works because it still kills the process, but the sleep option makes it come up again after 60 seconds. which is good.

If it would be possible I need it to not kill the process at all, since it needs to run without being killed when closing putty.

What I'm wondering
Isn't there a way that when someone presses the quit option in the menu it will shut down the menu itself and then log off from the shell?

This would save me a lot more trouble.

Anyway... thank you very much for the option you've given me before, that has helped in some way, but as you can read, it isn't the entire sollution

Thanks again.

Kind regards

Jorge Valencia