How to run a background command and return immediately

[Jimena Sanchez]

Hi all,

I want to create a shell step that runs a command in background and returns immediately so I can continue with my next step.

I tried several approaches but the job keeps running until the background job finishes.

Here is a simple example of my problem

my shell step has these lines

echo "starting"

/tmp/test.sh

echo "done"

cat /tmp/test.sh

#!/bin/bash

/tmp/test1.sh &

cat /tmp/test1.sh

while true; do

  echo "running"

  sleep 10

done

log output shows 

starting

done

running

running

running

....

I also tried to call test1 script from rundeck's job and didn't work.

[Alex Honor]

Hi Jemena,

You might need to nohup the call to the test1.sh script and close stdout/stderr.

Thanks

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[Jimena Sanchez]

Thanks for your answer I already tried that and didn't work

Alex Honor

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[Jimena Sanchez]

FYI I'm running rundeck version: 2.2.1-1