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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 06 2006 - 13:00:57 CDT

Jan,
  From the commands you listed, it appears that you didn't rediret
standard input, so most likely the process is blocking while reading
stdin, which would explain why it's in the process list but not doing
anything. The "Killed:" message may relate to something you're doing
in your script, as clearly VMD didn't die. Try running a simpler test
script, and redirect stdin from run-volmap.tcl or something like that.
There's an example in the User's Guide on command line options showing
the right stdin/stdout redirections etc.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 02:46:13AM +0200, Jan Saam wrote:
> Dear fellow VMDers,
>
> I'm trying to run VMD-1.8.4 in textmode as a background job on a Linux
> machine (I tried 32 bit single processor and AMD64 machine with 4
> processors)
>
> My problem is that whenever I'm trying to use "&" or Ctrl-z to start the
> job in the background e.g.
>
> vmd -dispdev text -e run-volmap.tcl > vmd.out &
>
> then it says
>
> Killed: vmd -dispdev text -e run-volmap.tcl > vmd.out &
>
> and the related processes keep loitering in the process table but don't
> consume any CPU time.
>
> Does anybody have an idea how to achieve that?
>
> Regards,
> Jan
>
>
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> Charite Berlin
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>
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