freeing the prompt

[azeem ahmad]

>From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: RE: freeing the prompt
>Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:27:29 -0600
>
>On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 14:19, azeem ahmad wrote:
> > >
> >
> > the & doesnt seem to work with a scrip
> > when i run
> > ./dicom -v & it works in its ordinary manner and captures the prompt :(
>
>It is still reading input from the terminal connection it inherited
>and will send output and errors there. You need to redirect
>stdin, stdout, and stderr from/to appropriate places if you
>don't want that.  You might also want to run it with
>'nohup' so that signals are ignored and it keeps running
>if you disconnect.
>
>--

the problem is that i have to execute this script on a remote server so if i 
exec it in such way and then close my connection, most probably the script 
will be closed too