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Questions tagged [nohup]

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Can I nohup/screen an already-started process?

I'm doing some test-runs of long-running data migration scripts, over SSH. Let's say I start running a script around 4 PM; now, 6 PM rolls around, and I'm cursing myself for not doing this all in screen. Is there any way to "retroactively" nohup a…
ojrac
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How to run script via SSH that doesn't end when I close connection?

I need to run script, that takes long time to execute, or I just want it to run forever. I can't just SSH to my machine, because when I disconnect it stops running. Is there any way to run script that isn't dependent on the shell that started…
Jakub Arnold
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how to rotate nohup.out file without killing my application

My nohup.out file is growing fast. I am running an application in the background, it's writing nohup.out file, now I need to rotate nohup.out file without killing my application. Can this be done?
user2454307
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Redirect nohup to stdout

Is it possible to let a process started with nohup, write to stdout instead of in a file? or maybe in the file and on the screen? nohup python start.py & writes to nohup.out, but I'd like it to output to the screen, nohup is only meant as a hedge…
Davoud Taghawi-Nejad
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What does the ampersand (&) symbol mean with `nohup`?

Ive seen tons of examples where a & follows the end of a command string, but I can't seem to find an explanation on what it does. It's not even in nohup's man page. Is this a shell thing? Either using & or not, I find that any process ran with…
Chad Harrison
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There is any way to run processes in the background in Windows? nohup equivalent for windows

nohup runs a process in the background. There is any equivalent for Windows?
Jader Dias
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Using nohup when initial input is required

On a linux system is there any way to use nohup when the process that is being nohuped required input, such as an rsync command that needs a password to be entered but will then run happily on its own?
DrStalker
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nohup multiple sequential commands

I need to nohup two commands, one after another. The second command has to be executed AFTER the first command. Here are the commands: tar -zcf archive.tar.gz.tmp mydir mv archive.tar.gz.tmp archive.tar.gz I need the commands to run in the…
Jake Wilson
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How do I get nohup.out flushed more often?

On Ubuntu 10.04, I have a long Python program that prints a bunch of output; I run this under "nohup". However, it waits until the end to put all the text in nohup.out. When I run similar programs under FreeBSD, each line gets sent to nohup.out. Is…
Paul Hoffman
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rsync termiates after a while unexpectedly

I run a rsync command with nohup in ssh session, but after a while it returns this error: rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at rsync.c(549) [generator=3.0.9] rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at…
Arash Mousavi
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rotate nohup out file (nohup.log)

is there a 'native' way where i can rotate nohup out file ?
silviud
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nohup vs screen vs ? for manually starting daemon processes

When I need to start a background process on a low-importance server, I tend to use nohup: nohup ./server.sh & Most colleagues seem to prefer screen: screen -D -R mydaemon ./mydaemon.sh ^A ^D Are there any major differences in the effect of these…
Steve Bennett
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How to use nohup to continue to run a command after the user logout?

nohup & When I SSH into a Linux server, if I want to run a command and make sure that it will continue to run in the background after I logout from SSH, I will use the above commands. Recently I am using a server stack called Bitnami…
userpal
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How to run rsync without staying logged in?

I want to run the following rsync command to transfer a folder from a remote server to my current one sudo -r -a -v -e 'ssh -p portnum' username@serverip:/home/path/* /home/path this directory is quite large in both size and structure and the…
Euskadi
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job control and ssh

I can't seem to figure out a decent way to manage jobs over ssh. I want to start a job in an ssh session, logout, log back in, do a fg, check on the job, logout, then repeat the whole process. nohup doesn't seem to wrok well. I used this command …
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