Thanks to : DAUBIGNE Sebastien - BOR Andrew Hay It turned out, that due to part of my script calling su to oracle (to call some sqlplus), the oracle .profile had a call to tty -s which was causing the subshell to attempt to write to the terminal. I changed the .profile to test for a present terminal in a more effcient way and the problem has been solved. Thanks for the directions. >>> "Can anyone please shed some light on why my KSH script which echos out some "comments as it processes. It is stopping with a SIGTTOU [Term Out] whenever "It is run it in the background and stops at the first echo statement. The "script runs perfectly in foreground. Is it some odd stty setting perhaps? My "understanding is the 2>&1 redirects STDERR and STDOUT to the logfile as I "want it to ...... " "root@indtr02 /usr/local/bin # nohup backup_db.ksh -b "tr01 fts01" >> "/var/adm/logs/nightly_backup.log 2>&1 & << > ---------------------------------------------------- > Kev Smith > Unix Systems Administrator. > Operational Support, IND Croydon. > * E-Mail : kevin.m.smith@siemens.com > * Tel : 0208 7604849 > * Mobile : 07808 828595 > ---------------------------------------------------- > Siemens Business Services Ltd > This e-mail contains confidential information and is for the > exclusive use of the addressee/s. If you are not the addressee, then any > distribution, copying or use of this e-mail is prohibited. If received in > error, please advise the sender and delete it immediately. We accept no > liability for any loss or damage suffered by any person arising from use > of this e-mail. > > Siemens Business Services > Registered No: 1203466 England > Registered Office: Siemens House, Olbury, Bracknell, > Berkshire, > RG12 8FZ _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Fri Sep 26 11:17:44 2003
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