Running OpenVPN in the background.
 

i have to apply the following command to create VPN connection to my firewall:

My only problem is that the command produces continures output telling me exactly what's happening with the connection.
As far as i know, to run a process in the background i need to add & to the command, like:
My question is: how can i run the above openvpn command in the background?
thanks in advance.

try like this:

(sudo ./openvpn --config vpnauto-TO-IPCop.ovpn) &