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Subject: Backgrounding a perl program
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.225506.29103@massey.ac.nz>
From: G.Eustace@massey.ac.nz (Glen Eustace)
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 91 22:55:06 GMT
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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Firstly I'll admit to being a complete novice at perl programming.
But I will add that I am impressed by what one can do with it.  My
first attempts do what I want, almost.

I have a couple of perl programs that analyse the repquota reports
from a number of systems and then produce summarised data.

If I type the command

mu_quotasummary | more

I get exactly what I wanted.

mu_quotasummary > results &

sits in a Stopped state, awaiting tty input.

I don't read from STDIN or /dev/tty at all.  Is there some trick to
getting the program to run in the background.  I had wanted to put it
in to crontab to run every week but my first attempts have meet with
little success.

I am using perl 3.0p37 on a Pyramid but I don't think my difficulty
is version specific.

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