On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Dan wrote:

> I'm trying to get a program (liveice) to run in the background, however
> the shell always tells me that the process was suspended due to tty
> output, etc.  I've done the obvious:
>
> nohup program &
>
> and when it reported that it suspended the process because it needed a
> tty for output, I tried various redirections:
>
> nohup program > /dev/null 2>&1 &
> nohup program >& /dev/null &

There's always screen (check pkgsrc), you can detach and reattach to
virtual terminals.

-lava

>
> and so on.  Is there a way to make the process think it has a tty when
> it really doesn't?  The second cmd actually works under linux, but then
> linux won't fit on a flash disk too easily.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
>

--Brian

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