Starting program in background...

[Olivier Gautherot]

DerAlSem wrote:

>How can i run program in background? It cannot be run as a deamon. I
>read in manual, that i should use "screen" command. But this prog is
>port from linux, and it seems, there's no screen command under
>FreeBSD. Starting with "&" parametr have no effect... It's giving me
>pid, but program continues output to console...
>
>  
>
You can start the command using "at", like

    at now my_command

Note that all outputs (stdout and stderr) will be sent to you by email :-)

Hope it helps
    Olivier