[Tutor] problem with subprocess

[Bala subramanian]

Thank you so much. I could see the job running with nohup after logout.

Bala

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Hugo Arts <hugo.yoshi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Bala subramanian
> <bala.biophysics at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear Friends,
> >
> > I have to do a series of job in a remote machine. I put each job in a
> text
> > file called 'job' as and wrote the following code that can read each line
> in
> > the text file and execute the job.
> >
>
> Why not just write a shellscript? that's essentially a list of jobs
> anyway. if you make the first line of the file #! /bin/bash you can
> basically execute it directly.
>
> > I login to the machine and run the script as 'python job.py'. But when i
> > logout from the machine, the job gets killed. So i submitted the job in
> > background as 'python job.py &'. Even in this case, when i logout from
> the
> > machine, the job gets killed. Why is this so. How can i avoid the same ?
> >
>
> you need to run 'nohup python job.py'. background process still get
> SIGHUP when you log out, so they'll still exit.
>
> http://www.computerhope.com/unix/unohup.htm
>
> Hugo
>
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