Thanks for all the responses, I will explore them all. Here is something else that is interesting. When I 'nohup dsmcad 2> /dev/null &' it appears to work, but the 'dsmc schedule' appears to react differently as shown below when I type 'ps -aef | grep dsm':
root 32417 1 0.0 14:58:26 ?? 0:00.03 dsmcad root 4357 321 0.0 08:11:40 ttyp1 0:00.00 grep dsm root 28820 321 0.0 07:58:17 ttyp1 0:00.05 dsmc schedule I believe the 'ttyp1' designates only for the current session, am I correct? While the '??' is for any session. The 'dsmcad' stays running thru a log out. Hmmm... Bud Brown Information Services Systems Administrator -----Original Message----- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 9:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Nohup Scheduler Service. I think if you do a ctrl-z and type bg enter it will send the task to the background. We have never been able to get nohup to work on the dsmserv start up and go to the background. The other possibility is to put the whole think in parenthesis (nohup dsmc schedule 2> /dev/null &). -----Original Message----- From: Brown, Bud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 9:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Nohup Scheduler Service. Anybody, I am trying to get the scheduler service to run in the background and to continue running after a logout. My TSM server is ver. 4.1.4.1 and AIX 4.3.3, my tsm b-a client is 4.1.4 on a Unix Tru64 OS. I was using the 'Tivoli Storage Manager for UNIX - Using the Backup-Archive Clients', in chapter 5 'Automating TSM Tasks.' In the chapter it details using the following statement 'nohup dsmc schedule 2> /dev/null &'. However, it only continues to run while I am logged in, if I log out and log back in, the process can not be found. Our software vendor affirmed that he could get other processes to run after a logout, but could not get the dsmc schedule process to run after a logout. It is probably obvious I am not a Unix guru so any help would be very appreciated. Thanks, Bud Brown Information Services Systems Administrator
