How to run the script with a runtime of 12 minutes

[Vladimir]

First of all, please excuse me for my English.
I need to automatically run a script every time after rebooting the router, as well as the cron once a week.
The problem is that the execution time of this script is about 11-12 minutes. If I add it to one of the standard user scripts (for example, post-mount), its execution stops after 120 seconds. If I run it manually - it works fine.
Is there any way to automatically execute this script during/immediately after router reboot?

 

[JDB]

If you add a & to the command it should demonise it and not hit the 120 second limit.


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[Vladimir]

That is, the script call should look like

 . ./my_script &

So simple? Thank you very much!

 

[JDB]

In theory yes.

The start scripts have an execution time limit of 120 seconds to complete everything. But if you add the & it forks the process away so the start script will continue as soon as it starts your script, rather than waiting 12 minutes to continue.


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[ColinTaylor]

That is, the script call should look like

 . ./my_script &

So simple? Thank you very much!

You need to specify the full path to the script, or have previously issued a "cd" command.

You wouldn't normally use the beginning ". " part. It depends on how your script is written.

 

[thelonelycoder]

That is, the script call should look like

 . ./my_script &

So simple? Thank you very much!

It is indeed is so simple.
I use similar code in Diversion for temporary files. The one below writes a file and destroys itself after 10 seconds.

cat <<-EOF > "/tmp/diversion-unmount"
        #!/bin/sh
        sleep 10
        rm -f /tmp/diversion-unmount
        EOF
sh /tmp/diversion-unmount >/dev/null &

The /dev/null prevents output in terminal.