[Kiran]

well, i have only been learning about linux, unix and shells for a few days.

For my online game to work, i need run a file each 10 seconds. Running that file will update mysql data, causing my online game to "tick". This adds resources and fights battles in game.

I know that i need to use a bakground process, a wget commad.



Code:

#!/bin/bash

while true; do
wget my_url/tick.php
sleep 10
done

exit 0



That keeps the process running, whilst i am logged in to putty.

I want to exit my SSH program, and leave that process running for ever. Please help me!

Thanks, Kiran

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally Posted by Kiran

Code:

#!/bin/bash

while true; do
wget my_url/tick.php
sleep 10
done

exit 0



That keeps the process running, whilst i am logged in to putty.

I want to exit my SSH program, and leave that process running for ever. Please help me!

There are probably a hundred better ways to do this, but here's the first thing that popped in my head: say your script lived in a file called "tick.sh," you could run it like this to make it truly background: nohup ./tick.sh &.

This would allow you to exit your SSH session and have the script run in the background. To kill it later, use ps -auxx | grep tick (or something to find the process number), and then kill it.

[Baryon]

The 'watch' command is what you need, I think. It runs a command at a specified interval. I.e.

watch -n 10 'wget my_url/tick.php'

As an alternative to the above, if your remote server accepts cron jobs, investigate cron.