octave scripts don't go to background

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

  "Gerd" == Gerd Bürger <address@hidden> writes:
  Gerd>  Hi, If I send octave to the background from an interactive shell, it
  Gerd> works. But using the script, e.g.,
  Gerd>  doesn't work. octave says
  Gerd> 
  Gerd> suspended (tty output) def.m

Works like a charm for me, and has for a long, long time (on Linux and SunOS,
at least).  I'd also recommend changing the bang line to 

   #! /usr/bin/octave -q

Anyway, what is your OS? What is your shell? And you did chmod the script?

Dirk

address@hidden:~> cat /tmp/def.m
#! /usr/bin/octave -q
quit
address@hidden:~> ls -l /tmp/def.m
-rwxr-xr-x    1 edd      edd            26 Jul 19 19:16 /tmp/def.m
address@hidden:~> /tmp/def.m
address@hidden:~> /tmp/def.m &
[3] 7286
address@hidden:~>
[3]+  Done                    /tmp/def.m


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