Re: Starting program in background...

From: Olivier Gautherot (ogautherot_at_freesurf.fr)
Date: 08/10/04

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To: sietze <freebsd@sietze.com>

    sietze 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...
    >
    >Correct me if I am wrong, but adding "&" to a command only means that the
    >shell does not wait for the command to finish before returning you to the
    >prompt.
    >
    >If the command produces any output it will go to the standard output stream,
    >usually the screen.
    >Piping the output into an alternative output stream, using ">" is not a
    >solution?
    >
    >
     From a general point of view, there are cases where you want to
    detach your process from a terminal. That's where the at command
    can help. Otherwise, pipes and redirections can often do miracles :-)

    Cheers
        Olivier
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