I frequently use the program nohup
so that my processes are immune to hangups. So if I want to make the program program
immune to hangups, I use the command
nohup program &
where &
puts the process in the background.
When starting, nohup
gives me the message:
nohup: appending output to `nohup.out'
Is there any way to send the output to a file other than nohup.out
? Often I want to run many processes in the same directory using nohup
, but if I do this, all the output gets lumped together in a single nohup.out
file.
The manual page (for example, here) does not seem to have an option for specifying the log file. Can you please confirm this? Also, do you have any thoughts of how I can work around this problem?
Best Answer
GNU coreutils
nohup
man page indicates that you can use normal redirection:Edit: I didn't read your link at first; you may have a different version of
nohup
, although this section suggests that you can still use normal redirection:You can redirect standard output and standard error to different files:
or to the same file: