[Wien] runsp_lapw dies offline

[Laurence Marks]

This is a Linux question (not WIen2k). Read up on running jobs with
the at/batch command or whatever your cluster uses.

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 8:31 AM,  <apostnik at uni-osnabrueck.de> wrote:
> Dear community,
> I have a mixed Linux-Wien2k question -
> don't remember it being answered (at least recently);
> my apologies if I've overlooked the solution.
>
> The problem:
> a shell script containing  runsp_lapw ,
> or apparently the  runsp_lapw  itself,
> when started in a terminal session on a remote machine,
> lives only as long as the terminal session lives
> (the last WIEN executable does of course continue
> to its conclusion but the next one from the script crashes).
> If the session stays on, everything proceeds fine.
>
> - Why?
> - How to avoid?
>
> nohup ... &
> does not help.
>
> There must be something related to the contents
> of run_lapw because other more straightforward scripts do execute
> correctly in the off-sesion regime.
>
> Thanks
>
> Andrei Postnikov
>
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