Advanced Korn Question

From: david hill <david.hill_at_lechateau.ca>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:00:36 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.002CAFA5.20010313082132@fatcity.com>

I was hoping someone in the list might be able to help me understand why this happens.

i have a script a.ksh that looks like this a.ksh

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ksh b.ksh

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b.ksh

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su - updater -c "/prod/exe/pos2100" 2>&1 $log1 &
su - updater -c "/prod/exe/pos2100" 2>&1 $log2 &
su - updater -c "/prod/exe/pos2100" 2>&1 $log3 &
su - updater -c "/prod/exe/pos2100" 2>&1 $log4 &

wait

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when i run this only 1 of the background runs and the other 3 hang

but if i change a.ksh to this

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ksh b.ksh 2>&1 /dev/null

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everything works ok and all 4 jobs go into background and run fine

coudl someone tell me why this happens

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Received on Tue Mar 13 2001 - 11:00:36 CST