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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Getting rid of controlling terminal
Message-ID: <1990Feb18.003948.13671@virtech.uucp>
Date: 18 Feb 90 00:39:48 GMT
References: <4018@rouge.usl.edu>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
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In article <4018@rouge.usl.edu> pcb@gator.cacs.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs) writes:
>So  program args >& file </dev/null  does not seem to work?

Try  "nohup program args >file  2>&1 &" from /bin/sh.

I believe the same thing will work for csh (substituting >&file for
">file 2>&1", of course)



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