[Tutor] Process problem

[Michael P. Reilly]

On 6/16/05, Alberto Troiano <albertito_g at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey all
> 
> Nevermind, it worked with the & trick.
> I just posted because the first 2 times didn't do anything but there was 
> an
> error in the crontab so...
> 

Alberto,

If you are going to use put the processes in the background with the 
ampersand ('&'), then you probably want to use 'nohup' as well in the 
os.system() call:
os.system("nohup %s >/dev/null 2>&1 &" % cmd)
This may save some headaches later.

-Arcege
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