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From: pemurray@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Getting rid of controlling terminal
Message-ID: <1014.25ddbea2@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: 18 Feb 90 02:14:09 GMT
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In article <4018@rouge.usl.edu>, pcb@gator.cacs.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs) writes:
> 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).


From the syntax of your command, I think your using the c-shell.  To run a
process in the background, the only thing you need to do is put an '&' on
the end of your command.  For instance:

	program arcs >& file &

This process should continue even when you log out.

Peter