Re: Program is "stopped" when sent to background

From: Sybren Stuvel (sybrenUSE_at_YOURthirdtower.imagination.com)
Date: 08/28/03 

Date: 28 Aug 2003 09:10:07 GMT

David Chamberlain enlightened us with:
> The Job Control section of the bash manual says that if a
> background process tries to read from or write to the terminal it
> will suspend the process. I suspect that this is problem, but I'm
> not sure how to solve it.

Install "screen" and read it's documentation. You'll love it.

Sybren 

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