> (cd /var/hack/TyTool; ./tserver_mfs > /dev/null 2>&1 &) > > The parens '()' should spawn the above commands in a subshell with > tserver_mfs run in the background and has the output sent to the > null device... Thanks Pat. That is cool. I will add that to the docs... I don't do shell programming, C/C++ is my bag, so I had no idea that would work. --jdiner