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Re: Background process with Cygwin
* Corinna Vinschen (Mon, 6 Apr 2009 16:11:14 +0200)
> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL
> On Apr 6 09:51, Jeff Irwin wrote:
> > I am running windows server 2003 with cygwin. I
> > am attempting to get a bash script to continue to run in cygwin even
> > after I have logged out.
>
> That's not possible. Windows always kills all processes started
> within your logon session as soon as you leave the session.
>
> If you want processes to run independently from your logon session,
> you have to start them as Windows service.
Or use task scheduler...
Thorsten
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