Re: Running softIoc's in the background

[Kay-Uwe Kasemir <kasemirk@ornl.gov>]

Hi:

Can somebody explain this behavior?
Something about process groups or controlling terminal
requiring a shell process to go between
the 'screen' and the soft IOC?

Thanks,
-Kay

On Nov 9, 2005, at 11:49 , Walters, M (Malcolm) wrote:
> Using screen with a script that calls the ioc startup script works,  
> as suggested by several
> people.
>
> $ cat ./st.screen
> #!/bin/sh
> ./st.boot
>
> $ screen ./st.screen
...
> When I try to specify the startup script at the same
> time (i.e. "screen ./st.cmd"), the ioc starts but on any
> caget/caput/... command the screen terminates without any error  
> message.