[gentoo-user] Running a program on a headless computer ?

Hi,

I want to run programs, which insist on haveing a terminal
to write their status to and which are writing files which
their results on a headless computer (beaglebone).

I tried things like 

    my_program -o file.txt -parameter value > /dev/null &2>&1 &

but this results in a idle copy of this process and a defunct
child.

The program does not use X11 in any way...

Is there any neat trick to accomplish what I am trying to do here?

Thank you very much in advance for any help!
Best regards,
mcc