From unix/linux manpages: nohup - run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty cron - daemon to execute scheduled commands (ISC Cron V4.1) The purposes of the commands are not mutually exclusive; you can place into cron a script which contains a nohup; on my experience, i use nohup: - from command line prompt, when I need to close the session before the end of excution of the script - in cron jobs scripts, when i need to collect all of its output, for example: nohup my_script.sh > my_script.log 2>&1 & There can be many other situations to use one, the other or bot, yet. Alessandro >presumably for much the same reasons one might run scripts using nohup on >unix rather than using cron? >Niall >On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Hans Wijte <hans.wijte@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> >> Why not run your scripts as a scheduled task ? >> > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l