nohup <command> & 1

[Igaduma]

Hi all,

I'm running as a normal user a script:
nohup <script> &

It doesn't seem to create a nohup.out in the directory I started it, which is strange.
How come it doens't generate it ?
It seems to output messages anyhow to my terminal, but killing the terminal & sessions leaves the script running, but I wonder where it's sending it's output ?
Is there a system wide nohup.out or am I causing serious havoc on the server ?

I tested it on a server for which I'm root and there it pipes output into nohup.out.

As usual, any help is appriciated


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[bi]

That does seem strange that nohup.out isn't being created.

If you are using nohup <command> & as a user other than root, perhaps you don't have write rights to the directory you are executing from?

 

[Annihilannic]

I'm not sure why that's happening, but you could just do it explicitly by typing:

[tt]nohup script > nohup.out 2>&1 &[/tt]

What OS?

Annihilannic.

 

[Igaduma]

Hi there,
Sparc sol8 is the OS/arch

Yes, I should have write rights since I chmodd'ed 755 -R the whole directory tree and it's located in my homedir.

So I can try

nohup script > nohup.out

but what does the &quot;2>&1 &&quot; bit do ?

 

[KenCunningham]

Try a find / -name 'nohup.out' -print

from your root directory, looking for the creation/access times. This should at least give you an indication as to whether the file is being created anywhere in the system, and possibly, why it's going there.

 

[Igaduma]

Hi Ken,

Yeah, tried that, even did a system-wide nohup.out search to no avail.

I bet the server must be sprinkled with holy water.

 

[bi]

The 2>&1 & part is saying that both standard error and standard out will go to nohup.out. and the second & is the completion of the nohup <command> & line.

 

[Igaduma]

Thanks bi

Trying that

 

[Igaduma]

Ok, running it as this:

nohup script > nohup.out &

works purrrfectly

Thanks guys

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