Hello everyone, I have a program that uses the setsid() routine or the nohup command on HPUX, but when I ported the program to the MPE, I discovered those routines would not work. Currently when the program is run, it needs a dedicated terminal, and I need to stop that. I need to start the program in the background, but I am not sure how to do it. I have considered starting it via the stream command, but I wanted to stay in the posix shell (performance would suffer too). I tried starting it with the '&' and ignoring the SIG_HUP signal, but that didn't work. Any other ideas? Oh, I am using x.50.50. TIA, John -- John Brainard [log in to unmask]