From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28411 invoked from network); 25 Oct 1999 18:01:11 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 25 Oct 1999 18:01:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 12455 invoked by alias); 25 Oct 1999 18:00:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 2693 Received: (qmail 12448 invoked from network); 25 Oct 1999 18:00:51 -0000 To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: logout and nohup From: Roland Jesse Date: 25 Oct 1999 20:00:31 +0200 Message-ID: <0v904rmibk.fsf@cs.uni-magdeburg.de> X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/Emacs 19.34 Hi, I am using zsh 3.1.5 on Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7. In my .zlogin I have the following: ... ...starting X... # quit X so log out nohup /usr/local/etc/kehraus 2> /dev/null & wait 5 # provide time for kehraus to complete logout Now, "kehraus" is a script which updates ~/.dirs and removes corefiles in case I did not specifically save them. The problem is when it comes to the logout command. It does not log me out immediately but tells me: "zsh: you have running jobs." I need an additional C-d to log out successfully. The only job left is this kehraus script. Why is this? Isn't nohup supposed to keep the process running in the background while still being able to log out? Roland (a bit confused)