On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Craig White wrote:

> /root/relaydelay-0.04/relaydelay.pl &
>
> then it outputs to terminal I ran it from.
>
> If I use
>
> /root/relaydelay-0.04/relaydelay.pl 2>&1
>
> then I don't get the terminal back at all - as if it hasn't forked. I
> need to have this run as a service without output to a terminal and
> obviously run without a terminal connection at all. How do I do this?

So also have it output file handle 1 to a file and background it too.

But instead, you may want to use nohup, such as:

nohup /root/relaydelay-0.04/relaydelay.pl


 Jeremy C. Reed

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