🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi!

...I would be very thankfull if someone could help me with the following
problem with the Runtime class:

I have created a "Process Launcher" in JBuilder which main task is to start
a process (a server program).

The server needs a file (configuration purpose) as input and the output is
usually stored in a file:

*server configFile >>&logFile

(Append to the logfile which exist and read both from stdout and stderr).

So therefore I load an executable file and a configuration file in my GUI
and after this
I start this process and continously read from it and highlights different
keywords etc.

But my problem is that I can't destroy the process I just started? (believe
it or not ;-) )

I'm using the Process class in Java because I thought it had nice
functions that satisfied my requirements. Here is what it's look like:

Start the process:
proc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[] { "tcsh", "-c", executableFile
+ " " + cfgFile + " >>&.logfile"});
// Contiously read the logfile in a separate thread
....
// When finished, try to destroy the process:
proc.destroy();

But the server process will not terminate...But this isn't a surprise
because the only process that terminates is
the tcshell.
If I use it together with proc.waitFor(); , which should return 0 on success
it returns 15 in my case?

But shouldn't there be a way to come around this problem and also manage to
terminate the second process, ie.
the executableFile (the server in my case)?

Ofcourse, at the beginning, I didn't made it so hard for me and simple
tried:

proc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(executableFile + " " + cfgFile + "
>>&.logfile");

But it didn't succeed?

As I said, I would be very glad if someone has a solution to this problem
and could tell me (and others) about it.
I know script files could be a solution but since this is the only problem
left in my GUI program I think it would be
nice to keep the rest of it as it is today. And hopefully, it is an easy
problem to solve for someone who sees something
that I have missed(?).

Best regard
Kristian