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nohup is a POSIX command to ignore the HUP (hangup) signal.

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How do I fork a process that doesn't die when shell exits?

If I run emacs from the shell: $ emacs foo & and then kill that shell, emacs dies. How can I run a command so that it will not die when the shell dies? I found references to nohup, but that does not seem to help: $ nohup emacs foo & still kills…
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Continue SSH background task/jobs when closing SSH

I have the same question as here but even beyond that. If I logout/exit the SSH connection, I need my program running in background. Before exit, I type bg and jobs to check background running task, but after exiting SSH, the program doesn't run, it…
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Ctrl+c in a sub process is killing a nohup'ed process earlier in the script

I didn't know whether this belonged on SO (as it is a coding bug) but thought you guys would be more knowledgeable regarding the subtleties of the software used (so maybe even U&L could be considered). Here's the minimal code script (see edits for…
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How to attach to a nohup process?

If I start a process with nohup: nohup WHATEVER & then how can I see it again? I mean how to attach my terminal to it again under Linux, e.g.: Ubuntu 11.04 - just like with the screen package.
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Where is the STDOUT of a disowned program directed to?

As followup of this question, I would like to know where the STDOUT and STDERR of a program on which I've run disown -h is redirected to.
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After-the-fact remote nohup with tcsh

I have a tcsh instance in an xterm that is running a long-term (weeks?) process. The Xvnc server it's running under went out in the weeds; it's consuming 100% CPU and is unresponsive. (This is a known bug and I know that it's unrecoverable.) The…
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Nohup over ssh won't return

I am trying to do [me@myPc]$ ssh me@server "nohup myBashScript.sh &" My goal is to launch the process on the server, and then immediately return. It is not working: The job is started on server, but I still get the output on myPc and bash wait for…
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nohup output redirection to a different file

I use nohup quite often for important long running processes under linux/bash, so much so that nohup time my command with arguments && mv nohup.out my.log is almost an idiom for me. The problem is that nohup puts both stdout and stderr into…
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Nohup and the difference between logout and exit on a remote shell

I have access to a remote Linux shell for work purposes. I have kept a python script running in the background using nohup. Now, if I want to exit the session, what is the difference between using logout and exit commands? Will my script keep…
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Keep a program running after closing a console, after the program has started

Possible Duplicate: How do I detach a process from Terminal, entirely? I've a program running in a Unix console on a remote Unix computer. I (stupidly) didn't run it using nohup &, and now I need to close the local console. Is there any way to…
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Nohup doesn't work when executing script from Jenkins

I have bash script which executes following nohup ws --port 8080 & when executing that script directly on remote server and closing connection - process still exists. But when i am using Jenkins "SSH plugin" - process stops after Jenkins closes…
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Nohup & Sass: Process keeps running but, after a while, *.scss files do not get compiled

I am using Sass on a CentOS 5.8 server and want it to keep running after SSH logout, so that other users can edit *.scss files for days or even weeks to come without any need to start the program each time they login (in fact, they don't even have…
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Pipe/send command to process running on nohup that accepts input from STDIN

I have a program that I run using nohup program &. This program accepts input from STDIN. Is there any way to send text to the STDIN of a program that is running via nohup? This is on FreeBSD running bash. I would like to see how this is done on…
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What's the difference between nohup and ">& nohup.out &"?

nohup renders a process immune to the shell's SIGHUP, but even if I run this from my shell: bash -c 'while true; do sleep 1; date; done' >& nohup.out & then log out and log back in, bash is still running and producing output to nohup.out. Is there…
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How to find out is a program run with nohup or not?

There is no difference in ps -ef | grep sleep output to commands: nohup sleep 60 & sleep 60 & In which way can I discover that program is run with nohup?
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