Re: [gentoo-user] Running a program on a headless computer ?

2014-09-30 Thread meino . cramer
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [14-09-28 20:44]: 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

[gentoo-user] Running a program on a headless computer ?

2014-09-28 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, 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 21 but this results in a idle copy of this

Re: [gentoo-user] Running a program on a headless computer ?

2014-09-28 Thread Randolph Maaßen
On Sep 28, 2014 4:14 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Running a program on a headless computer ?

2014-09-28 Thread meino . cramer
Randolph Maaßen r.maasse...@gmail.com [14-09-28 16:24]: On Sep 28, 2014 4:14 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, 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).

Re: [gentoo-user] Running a program on a headless computer ?

2014-09-28 Thread Stroller
On Sun, 28 September 2014, at 3:22 pm, Randolph Maaßen r.maasse...@gmail.com wrote: ... I would suggest to run the program in a screen session, you can disconnect frim the session and reconnect later. http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ If someone has never used `screen` before, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Running a program on a headless computer ?

2014-09-28 Thread Randolph Maaßen
2014-09-28 18:08 GMT+02:00 meino.cra...@gmx.de: Randolph Maaßen r.maasse...@gmail.com [14-09-28 16:24]: On Sep 28, 2014 4:14 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I want to run programs, which insist on haveing a terminal to write their status to and which are writing files which

Re: [gentoo-user] Running a program on a headless computer ?

2014-09-28 Thread Stroller
On Sun, 28 September 2014, at 5:08 pm, 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 would suggest to run the program in a screen

Re: [gentoo-user] Running a program on a headless computer ?

2014-09-28 Thread meino . cramer
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk [14-09-28 18:52]: On Sun, 28 September 2014, at 5:08 pm, 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Running a program on a headless computer ?

2014-09-28 Thread Jc García
2014-09-28 10:08 GMT-06:00 meino.cra...@gmx.de: Randolph Maaßen r.maasse...@gmail.com [14-09-28 16:24]: On Sep 28, 2014 4:14 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I want to run programs, which insist on haveing a terminal to write their status to and which are writing files which

Re: [gentoo-user] Running a program on a headless computer ?

2014-09-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Running a program on a headless computer ?

2014-09-28 Thread Todd Goodman
* meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de [140928 10:14]: Hi, 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Running a program on a headless computer ?

2014-09-28 Thread Sid S
I was deciding whether to reply earlier, and my worst fears were realized: you plan to start this automatically with no human intervention. Here is a snippet which should do what you want: `nohup my-program /dev/null 21 ` Screen and tmux will/should work, but at the very least I would suggest

Re: [gentoo-user] Running a program on a headless computer ?

2014-09-28 Thread Kerin Millar
On 28/09/2014 15:13, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, 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