try using the command, dsmc schedule < /dev/null &. Then type the command, job,
to
see if it is running in the background.

Regards, Paul

Grendelman M. (Martijn) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When I try to start the client scheduler by issuing
>
>      $ nohup dsmc sched 2>/dev/null &
>
> on an AIX machine, I sometimes get the following behaviour: after a couple
> of seconds, the process stops:
>
>      [1] + Stopped (SIGTTOU)        nohup dsmc sched 2>/dev/null &
>
> and it won't let me exit my shell without killing the process. Issuing
>
>      bg ; exit
>
> works, but the scheduler doesn4t seem to accept any commands from the
> central scheduler.
>
> I have had this problem on AIX 4.1.5 (with the proper client) and on AIX
> 4.3.1 (with the 4.2 client code). Has anyone experienced the same problems?
>
> Thanx,
> Martijn.
>
> P.S. SIGTTOU means a "background write attempted from control terminal", but
> that's as far as my knowledge goes. Maybe some AIX wizard can tell me what
> that means in plain English? ;-)