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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to continue shell script execution process without control going to pompt? Post 302622889 by Corona688 on Thursday 12th of April 2012 05:43:40 PM
Old 04-12-2012
It runs it in the background. The script will keep running, but won't wait for that particular program to finish before doing so.

It won't wait for it to connect, either.
 

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VBOXPUTTY(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      VBOXPUTTY(8)

NAME
vboxputty - a self-dialing/-calling vboxgetty SYNOPSIS
vboxputty -d device [-f config-file] [-c phonenumber] [-s ring-timeout] [-w wait] [-t redial] [-r redial-pause] vboxputty [-hv] DESCRIPTION
vboxputty is a vboxgetty, not waiting for, but triggering a call. After connect, vboxputty is acting exactly like vboxgetty. vboxputty exits with 0 if a connection was established, 99 on BUSY. OPTIONS
-h display a short help -v display the version information -f config-file use config-file instead of the default vboxgetty.conf -d device use device (/dev/ttyI*) for dialout -c phonenumber the phonenumber to be called -s ring-timeout vboxputty will dial the phonenumber and wait ring-timeout seconds for the called party to accept the call, if ring-timeout seconds are ellapsed before connect, vboxputty will hangup. -w wait after the connection is established, vboxputty will wait wait seconds before starting the tcl-script -t redial if the called party is BUSY, vboxputty will try redial times to get a connect -r redial-pause vboxputty waits redial-pause seconds between BUSY-redials FILES
/usr/local/vbox/etc/vboxgetty.conf AUTHOR
Gerrit Pape <pape@innominate.de> SEE ALSO
the vbox-documentation 4th Berkeley Distribution 13. January 2000 VBOXPUTTY(8)
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