On 25/09/2013 19:41, Chris Taylor wrote: > Strange, that doesn't quite work for me but if I use the "&" instead > of "< /dev/null" then it works perfectly. I used the explicit stdin redirection in my example just to avoid to hit enter twice to get the interactive prompt. And yes, sorry, you should move the & to get the redirection working as you want. > I thought I had I tried that and it didn't work but apparently I > didn't or I had the "&" in the wrong place in the script. > > This appears to be working like I wanted: > > nohup /opt/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/bin/sqlplus -s << EOF >> $logfile & > [...] You may need to redirect the standard error somewhere as well, otherwise you may not be able to consult it later, when you run the script non-interactively. Dimitre -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l