On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 09:57 -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > 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 ---- this didn't work ;-( neither did /root/relaydelay-0.04/relaydelay.pl & > /var/log/relaydelay.log am trying /root/relaydelay-0.04/relaydelay.pl & 2>&1 > /var/log/relaydelay.log nope... Craig --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss