I'm running debian 3.0r2 on one box and freebsd-4.9-STABLE on another, both using bash.


bash on the freebsd box works with the following command:

./executable > status.out &

as data hits stdout, the lines show up in status.out (viewed in another terminal via tail -f)

on the debian box, the following command
./executable > status.out &

won't close the file until the program terminates
as such, the output doesn't show up in another terminal via tail -f until the program ends or is stopped.

is there any configuration option / hack fix to fix this? are the linked libraries to blame?

What is the executable?

All our deb-servers behave as expected ...


Cheers,
Tink

i'm running (on both)

btlaunchmany > ~/public_html/output.txt &

(in the case of freebsd, the command is btlaunchmany.py, but they're both python-interpreted files)

I think it may be due to the program since
tail -f /var/log/syslog > ~/public_html/output.txt &
works on the debian box

kinda embarassed i didn't try that earlier....