[Wien] runsp_lapw dies offline

[Laurence Marks]

If you close the terminal window in which a task is running, unless
you have redirected I/O  and separated the task from the windown you
send a quite command to all children of the sh running in the
terminal.

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Yurko Natanzon
<yurko.natanzon at gmail.com> wrote:
> it is quite strange, runsp_lapw is just a csh shell script. what is
> the value of your $SHELL? If it is /bin/csh, *maybe* all csh processes
> die when you close the terminal window.
>
>>nohup ... &
> have you also tried "screen" instead of nohup? it is more powerful and
> it works great, no matter which program are you running inside the
> screen.
>
> regards,
> Yurko
>
> 2009/4/4  <apostnik at uni-osnabrueck.de>:
>> 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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>
>
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