Hi Jurgen, Yes the server is starting and it then it waits there till the server doesnt stop. No other tasks are run till that moment.
I have found a workaround for the same, i am using <limit> and nesting the sshexec inside it...so it comes out of it after default time which is 3 minutes. Thanks, Susheel On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:56 AM, Knuplesch, Juergen < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > So what is happening instead? Is ANT waiting for the server to stop? > > Is the server starting? > > Did you try it with a more somple command to start on the remote machine? > (sth. Like "cat"....) > > I used these days the exec-command on a Windows machine and it works fine > now. > I use it to start a DB-Server in the background. Afterwards I send this > server a stop-request. > There I use the "spawn" argument to start the program in a different > process. > > I also use <forget> and this is working fine. > > 1.Is sshexec behaving as exec? (kicking off a background process or is it > waiting on the remote command to end?) > 2.Could you send us (parts of) the task, that does not end? > > Greetings > > -- > Jürgen Knuplesch > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Susheel Raina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. November 2008 23:57 > An: user@ant.apache.org > Betreff: Running a remote process in background > > Hi, > > We are having Weblogic Server on a linux box and the deployment set up is > done from Windows Box remotely. > > I have to start/stop the server using ant and for that I am using sshexec > command. > > Now the problem with it is that I need to exit the task once the server is > started but in my case it doesn't happen. > > The build process is automated and since the ant command doesnt exit the > build goes on and doesn't stop. > > I tried to use ant-contrib task forget but that is not helping too as the > command never executes. > > I dont want to change the Weblogic start shell script. > > Any Suggestions please. > > > -- > Regards, > > Susheel Raina > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Regards, Susheel Raina