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I have some ksh shell scripts that I ported from RedHat 4 to RH7.

I have bar.ksh:

#!/bin/ksh

....

# here I start another script

foo.ksh &

wait

#seems to abruptly end

...

EOF

Now, these scripts worked on RH4, but fail to wait on RH7.
ksh --version says

version         sh (AT&T Research) 93u+ 2012-08-01

linux rhel ksh

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I have some ksh shell scripts that I ported from RedHat 4 to RH7.

I have bar.ksh:

#!/bin/ksh

....

# here I start another script

foo.ksh &

wait

#seems to abruptly end

...

EOF

Now, these scripts worked on RH4, but fail to wait on RH7.
ksh --version says

version         sh (AT&T Research) 93u+ 2012-08-01

linux rhel ksh

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  Can you describe more clearly what happens?  Does foo.ksh start running?  Does it get terminated before it finishes doing what it’s supposed to do?  Or does it continue to run asynchronously after bar.ksh has exited? … … … … … … … … … … … Please do not respond in comments; edit your question to make it clearer and more complete.
  
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I have some ksh shell scripts that I ported from RedHat 4 to RH7.

I have bar.ksh:

#!/bin/ksh

....

# here I start another script

foo.ksh &

wait

#seems to abruptly end

...

EOF

Now, these scripts worked on RH4, but fail to wait on RH7.
ksh --version says

version         sh (AT&T Research) 93u+ 2012-08-01

linux rhel ksh

share|improve this question

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#!/bin/ksh

....

# here I start another script

foo.ksh &

wait

#seems to abruptly end

...

EOF

version         sh (AT&T Research) 93u+ 2012-08-01

share|improve this question

edited 15 mins ago

Scott

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