Hello Everybody,

I have been struggling with this issue for quite some time, and the resolution that I found isn't so pretty, it solved my problem, I wonder if somebody has a "prettier" idea.

scenario:

I have a script x on machine a that shh's to machine b, and invokes a script y.

I need in case of successful exit status of script y on machine b to return to my script x on machine a and do some more work on machine a.
so my script x waits for return status from script y.

now script y invokes 2 things, the first one runs as a bg process, the second is not a bg process.

the thing is that bg process didn't let me exit from the script, so i couldn't return to my script x. the script was hung although all the services were successful

this is the way that i found to solve it:

(nohup bgscript >/dev/null 2>&1 &) &
(nohup bgscript >/dev/null 2>&1 &) &

p.s.: here bgscript is the first thing that needs to be invoked


without "double backgrounding" the bg process, script y didn't exit


Anybody has a nicer way of doing it?


Waiting for your replies
Thank you all in advance

'at' is useful for handing off jobs.