If you can, install cygwin on to your box. then you can run nohup command within the cygwin bash shell. Down below is a sample of how i have been running on windows. ~ $ echo "echo is this working" >t.ksh ~ $ nohup t.ksh 1>diditwork & [1] 2336 ~ $ ls diditwork nohup.out t.ksh ~ $ cat diditwork is this working $ On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Dba DBA <oracledbaquestions@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > I am stuck on a windows DB server. I need to run some .sql scripts from the > command line in the background. anyone know how to do this in windows? > > I have not used windows for a DB server in years... >