Am 24.10.2011 um 13:00 schrieb Gregory Matthews: > Prentice Bisbal wrote: >> Using nohup was exactly the advice I gave to one of my users yesterday. >> Not sure if he'll use it. 'man' is a very difficult program to learn, >> from what I understand. > > our experience of ppl using nohup without really thinking it through is > eventually filling the partition with an enormous nohup.out file.
It's possible to make an alias, so that "nohup" reads "nohup > /dev/null" The redirection doesn't need to be at the end of the command. Depends whether they need the output, and/or any output file is created by the application on its own anyway. -- Reuti > GREG > >> >> Prentice >> _______________________________________________ >> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing >> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >> > > > -- > Greg Matthews 01235 778658 > Senior Computer Systems Administrator > Diamond Light Source, Oxfordshire, UK > > -- > This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential, copyright and or > privileged material, and are for the use of the intended addressee only. If > you are not the intended addressee or an authorised recipient of the > addressee please notify us of receipt by returning the e-mail and do not use, > copy, retain, distribute or disclose the information in or attached to the > e-mail. > Any opinions expressed within this e-mail are those of the individual and not > necessarily of Diamond Light Source Ltd. > Diamond Light Source Ltd. cannot guarantee that this e-mail or any > attachments are free from viruses and we cannot accept liability for any > damage which you may sustain as a result of software viruses which may be > transmitted in or with the message. > Diamond Light Source Limited (company no. 4375679). Registered in England and > Wales with its registered office at Diamond House, Harwell Science and > Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE, United Kingdom > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
