From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 11 5:36:39 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 05:36:36 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from matt.MUNICH.v-net.org (u57n248.hfx.eastlink.ca [24.222.57.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FBD337B400 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 05:36:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from unisys (Windozzze [192.168.8.2]) by matt.MUNICH.v-net.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA21742; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:34:57 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from matt@researcher.com) From: "Matt Rudderham" To: Cc: Subject: RE: Putting a Process Into Background Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:29:28 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20001210213941.U96105@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 10:01:42PM -0400, Matt Rudderham wrote: > > Hi, > > I was wondering how to put a process that initially requires > some imput, but > > then will run on its own into the background to free up the > terminal. It's a > > setiathome process, as well as another similar one. > > People have pointed out that you just need to use 'bg' with your > scheme below. However, you mention setiathome. setiathome only > requires user interaction the first time it is started. There is no > user interaction after this point. If you install setiathome from the > ports there is a really nice startup script that will run it for you > at boot time. Thanks to all of the great responses I've gotten:) Yes, usually I've only required to enter info and such after I upgrade it, but lately it's been asking every time for me to log in, I've been using v 3.0 for BSD 2.x I think, maybe that has something to do for it, there wasn't a 3.0 for newer BSDs available yet. Regardless it isn't much of a problem since I usually leave it running for months at a time:) - Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message