[fpc-pascal]Can't run my programs in background

Pierre Muller pierre at freepascal.org
Mon Oct 9 17:40:57 CEST 2000


At 16:41 09/10/00 , vous avez écrit:
>Hi there...
>
>I have this problem with running my FreePascal programs in the background.
>When I start the program it runs just fine, but as soon as I press the
>enter button or logout, my program stops and I have to kill (9) to get rid
>of the stopped program...  Anybody know about this?
>
>I get following messages:
>
>$ dialserver &          (default for running in background)
>[1] 15825
>$                       (Here I press the enter button)
>
>[1]+  Stopped (tty output)    dialserver

You are runnig a program in background, but this program wants to write to 
the terminal,
you must use 'fg' to enable it to continue.

But in genberal you should redirect the output and error files with

dialserver 1> log 2> error.log &

  You might also need to redirect the input.





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