Hi Bob,
the thing is, I have to start hercules from a ssh session on a remote server which is not supposed to be open all time. Normally, when the ssh session terminates, the running shell at the remote server gets a SIGHUP (hang up) and terminates the processes which are sensitive to SIGHUP. This is prevented by "nohup" - hence the name. You basically detach a background process from the starting terminal. Works with the startup of TK4- but not with the startup of VM which seems to depend on "stdin" (the keyboard input of the terminal) to be available.?
regards
Michael