On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 16:13:51 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:

> I want to run programs, which insist on haveing a terminal
> to write their status to and which are writing files which
> their results on a headless computer (beaglebone).
> 
> I tried things like 
> 
>     my_program -o file.txt -parameter value > /dev/null &2>&1 &
> 
> but this results in a idle copy of this process and a defunct
> child.

nohup may do what you want.

Or you can do it with at, if atd is running

echo "my_program -o file.txt -parameter value" | at now


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Neil Bothwick

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