Re: Starting program in background...

From: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. (kdk_at_daleco.biz)
Date: 08/10/04

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    Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 08:36:50 -0500
To: DerAlSem <deralsem@inbox.ru>

    DerAlSem wrote:

    >How can i run program in background? It cannot be run as a deamon. I
    >read in manual, that i should use "screen" command. But this prog is
    >port from linux, and it seems, there's no screen command under
    >FreeBSD. Starting with "&" parametr have no effect... It's giving me
    >pid, but program continues output to console...
    >
    >
    >
     Hello,

    Technical questions should be posted to the questions@freebsd.org
    list (which I am cc'ing).

    I assume that you are being told to use the "screen" port
    /usr/ports/misc/screen, which is a GNU program. I don't
    know much about that. You could also use script(1), which
    was designed for this sort of thing.

    And yes, you could use "&" and console redirection...

    % somecommand > /home/me/logfile &

    This works under either the Bourne or C shells and would
    send "somecommand" into the background under shell
    job control and send all stdout to the logfile. Error messages,
    however, would still be written to console.

    If you use Bourne shell, you can redirect both stdout
    and stderr by doing it this way:

    $ somecommand> /home/me/logfile 2>&1

    But csh/tcsh doesn't like that, so script(1) is the better
    option.

    HTH,

    Kevin Kinsey
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