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From: pcb@gator.cacs.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Getting rid of controlling terminal
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Date: 17 Feb 90 00:09:26 GMT
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I hope this is the correct newsgroup, so many unix., but...
I want to run a job in the background and have it disconnect from
the associating terminal without hardcoding it.
i.e. when I do a ps -guax on Berkeley I want to see a ? in the tty column.

So  program args >& file </dev/null  does not seem to work?
Any suggestions?  The problem is, on a SUN network anyway, if I use
the tty, then others cannot rlogin in to this machine (I rlogin'ed to invoke
the command).


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