Re: starting background processes from admin files

[Derek Robert Price]

Jean-Pierre Sevigny wrote:

> The problem is in client/server mode, the client hangs until the
> background process finishes. In my loginfo file, i have
>
> ALL /u01/cvsutils/bin/cvsWatchOn.sh %{s} &
>
> In server mode, it is fine.
>
> My cvs server is on solaris 5.8, version 1.11.2.
>
> Jean-Pierre Sevigny
>  

Hmm.  Yes, you're correct.  Excuse me for my off the cuff answer, but 
CVS appears to wait for its child processes in client/server mode.

As a workaround, you could use your script to queue the run and have a 
cronjob check the queue once a minute and lauch the real job.

I'm not sure how CVS is tracking its children, but you might try having 
you script daemonize too (close stdin, stdout, and stderr) and see if 
that lets it escape notice.

Derek

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