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Subject: Re: [Freeciv-Dev] backgrounding civserver causes weird problems
From: Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 02:29:44 +0200

> Why would you want to background/nohup the server?  If a new game is
> started and you're not sitting at the console on which the game is being
> played.  Ideally you should be able to control the game remotely via
> cmdlevel.

Yes, familiar situation.  screen(1) was made for this.
 
> Any thoughts?

I agree, I think it would be a good idea to add a server command 'tty'
to make civserver start/stop listen to the tty for input.

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Reinier

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