Launch script on Linux using Putty

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-04-02, Michael Hoffman <cam.ac.uk at mh391.invalid> wrote:

>>> 1. The easiest is to run nohup on your script in the background:
>>>
>>> $ nohup myscript.py > output.txt 2> error.txt &
>>>
>>> Then you can disconnect but your script will keep running. Try man nohup
>>>   for more information.
>>>
>>> 2. Use GNU screen on your remote terminal, and detach the screen instead
>>> of logging off.
>>>
>>> 3. Set up your script to fork as a daemon. Google for ["python cookbook"
>>> fork daemon] to find a few recipes for this.
>
> [Ulysse]
>> 1. nohup seems not to be installed on my "reduced linux distribution".
>> It's a OpenWrt tunning on my WRT54GL Broadband router.
>
> If you are running bash, you can do this:

He's not running bash.  He's running busybox's shell.

[He'd be far better off asking his question in an OpenWRT or
Busybox forum, since it's got absolutely nothing to do with
Python.]

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