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From: Wesley Shields <wxs@atarininja.org>
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Subject: Re: Background process
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On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 02:03:24PM +0100, sthomas@nerim.net wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I connect to my freebsd box via ssh using putty from a WindowsXP
> workstation, I want to run a process on the freebsd box, then close my ssh
> session (closing putty) while keeping the process running.
> 
> So I run my process like this : # myprogram &, then I exit the shell.
> 
> But when I do that, I can see with ps that my process go from "TT" "p0" to
> "TT" "p0-" and the application doesn't work anymore. For information, the
> program I want to be able to run via ssh then close the ssh session is the
> moinmoin wiki which is a wiki written in python.
> 
> In man ps I can see that the trailing "-" after "p0" means my process can
> no longer reach the controlling terminal... But what can I do to achieve
> my goal ?

Install ports/sysutils/screen.

-- WXS