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Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
I'm trying to get a user-space program, Mutella, to run in the background. * "nohup mutella &" - mutella exits silently, it just says "stopped" * "nohup mutella" - it just sits there, but mutella doesn't run Okay, so maybe this is a Mutella-specific problem, in which case you probably can't help me, but i was under the impression that any program that you can run in the foreground can be run in the background?
Nope - you can't background processes that expect keyboard input. Usually they stop when they attempt to access the TTY, and issue an appropriate error (which you might be missing?). What happens if you foreground the process i.e. "jobs" "fg %n" where n is the relevant job - and sometimes a "ctrl-L" is useful to redraw the screen. These days you can use "screen" to leave such processes running, and resume connection when and from where you like, but if they stop expecting input, it probably won't have done much in the interim. I'm sure there are probably other reasons jobs won't background, but this is the common one. I haven't tried Mutella. Simon
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