Background job won't stay in the background!

JMJ_coder · 03-17-2008, 05:59 PM

Hello,

I am using TCSH and rxvt. I wanted to play an ogg file in the background while doing other work. So I issued the command and put it in the background.

Code:

% ogg123 musicfile.ogg &

Problem is that ogg123 output takes over the term window.

Code:

% ogg123 musicfile.ogg &
[1] 8664
% 
Audio Device:   Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) output

Playing: musicfile.ogg
Ogg Vorbis stream: 2 channel, 44100 Hz
Time: 00:02.11 [6:15.99] of 6:18.11  ( 97.0 kbps)  Output Buffer  93.8%

I thus can't do anything else in that term window, which defeats the whole purpose of putting the job in the background. Any thoughts?

sundialsvcs · 03-17-2008, 06:05 PM

Well you could add... >/dev/null 2>&1 to send all of its output into the bit-bucket.