Dear Experts,
this is a very practical question and it's much more OS-related, than SAP-related.
I am performing an action on a 64-bit HP-UX server. I wanted to start sapinst in a
way, that it will be independent on the connection and it won't interrupt its run, if
the connection will be disrupted.
So I have launched:
nohup ../SWPM/sapinst -nogui &
as this is the way, recommended by SAP.
Then, in order to follow the output, I did tail -f nohup.out
The first problem was - when I wanted to do something else in this window, I hit
Ctrl+C and it not only went out of tail, but it also terminated sapinst !!!!!!!!
How come ??? What's wrong with nohup in HP-UX ?
Then I left this window alone and I opened another putty session and started
sapinstgui there.
Now the second problem - I have selected the operation desired on the first screen,
hit next, I could see a couple of lines on the status bar about various .xml files being
generated and so on. Then I saw something like "Determining the SAP systems
installed" and that was it. I never got past that screen. Maybe just one time it went
through, maybe after 25 minutes waiting, but that was all. Once I have hit again
next, the button went grey and it never displayed the next screen.
Did anyone had similar disturbing experience and what could you advise ?
I can only think of requesting VNC next time from the OS guys, as I have been using
it before and it's very reliable.
Many thanks in advance for your suggestions and opinions!