How to use open/openvt with command line arguments?

Question

Question:

I can start LumiSoft mailserver in console mode like this:

./lsMailServer.exe -daemon

Unfortunately this blocks the terminal that was used. And I am logged in via ssh.

I'm just experimenting with the server, so I need to restart a lot after configuration changes.

Normally, I'd use the open command in this circumstance, which normally works fine.

It also works fine, when I do open ./lsMailServer.exe with X-Forwarding.

But I want to run the server terminal-only, which requires the -daemon option. Now when I do

open opt/MyPath/lsMailServer.exe -daemon

I get the following error message:

open: invalid option -- 'd' Usage: openvt [-c vtnumber] [-f] [-l] [-u] [-s] [-v] [-w] -- command_line

How can I use open with a program + arguments for that program ?

Answer 1

Aaaaah,forget it, one only needs to add -- after open:

openvt -- ls -l

or

open -- /opt/LumiSoft/MailServer/lsMailServer.exe -daemon

respectively