From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-04-05T23:59:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Asynchronous command call

On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Guest wrote:

> I am trying to use a ruby script to start a apache tomcat server like
> this:
>
> dir = "C:\\program\\apache-tomcat-5.5.20\\bin"
> `#{dir}\\shutdown.bat` rescue nil
> `#{dir}\\startup.bat`
>
>
> This works, except that the program never exits. I would like the
> startup call to be made Asynchronous so that the script would just call
> startup and then exit.
>
> Ive tried calling startup in a different thread, with the same result.

use exec

>
> /Emil
>
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