From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 2 18:21:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-american.com (sage-american.com [216.122.141.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89F0137B405 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 18:21:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from SAGEONE (adsl-64-219-21-232.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [64.219.21.232]) by sage-american.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA01139 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 20:21:46 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20020202202139.01917078@mail.sage-american.com> X-Sender: jacks@mail.sage-american.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 20:21:39 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: jacks@sage-american.com Subject: Running script in background Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a script that is to run continuously (sleeps 30 & loops) at root to monitor an activity and if it sees a change, it runs another program. I believe that can be run in the background, but don't recall how to do it. If the script were called #!/bin/sh silentwatch What would be the command to launch it in the bg...??? Thanks....! Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin =================================================== Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com "My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; ....situation excellent! ....I shall attack!" =================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message