I tried to use nohup to background running a process. However, after I exiting the shell, the process dies. Any idea?

Here is the one that always failed:
$ nohup bnddc_510.sh&
15240
$ Sending output to nohup.out

$ ptree|grep 15240
15240 /usr80/apl/bse/cware/baan/std/bnddc510 -f /usr80/apl/bse/cware/baan
15241 /bin/sh /usr80/apl/bse/bin/bshell6.2.solar 15240 321 7 8 -set SPE
15242 /usr80/apl/bse/bin/bshell6.2 15240 321 7 8 -set SPECIAL_SERVER=
15243 oracle8 (cware510[cwaretst]:15242/PIPE<cwaretst@garnet:15240>

what kind of processes do u run in your shell script?

for example I have a shell script to run some j2ee applications, but the old java version had a bug so I cannot logout shell if I logout my processes will die like yours, so I have to run from system console without logout

what shell are you using ? nohup only works for sh (and bash). It doesn't works with ksh.

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Strange I only use ksh and nohup has always worked for me.....