On Sep 28, 2014 4:14 PM, <[email protected]> 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 > /dev/null &2>&1 & > > but this results in a idle copy of this process and a defunct > child. > > The program does not use X11 in any way... > > Is there any neat trick to accomplish what I am trying to do here? > > Thank you very much in advance for any help! > Best regards, > mcc > > >
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/ -- Best regards Randolph Maaßen
