Comments on: nohup Execute Commands After You Exit From a Shell Prompt

By: haberler

haberler — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:58:31 +0000

is it available in centos dist’s ? l will search for more manuals :) thanks for sharing

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:01:07 +0000

Thank you very much, excellent article

By: sameer oak

sameer oak — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 05:34:20 +0000

> Aggdata September 3, 2010
> Hi There
> My nohup keeps ending with “Cancel request sent”
> nohup Scriptfile.ksh > Scriptlog.log 2>&1 &
> this happens even when I nohup it as you can see above
> Any help would be much appreciated
[ sameeroak ]
try the following:
nohup > /dev/null 2>&1 Scriptfile.ksh > Scriptlog.log &

By: Carlo

Carlo — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:43:48 +0000

Try also.

Ctrl + z
bg

By: Jair L.

Jair L. — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 12:07:59 +0000

You may find the results of the executed script or command executed with nohup, visiting nohup.out file generated automatically.

By: Mahendra Kumar

Mahendra Kumar — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:49:00 +0000

Could any one tell me what are the expected outputs of a nohup command ? If any script / job fails or successful, what are the outcome of this command ?

By: Erlon

Erlon — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 21:20:31 +0000

How can a trigger a remote command via ssh command line??
Like:
ssh root@machine “nohup /home/test/scripts/qemu-vio &”

In the command above, the program qemu-vio doent run in backgroung. Why?? How can I do that??

By: George Anderson

George Anderson — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 23:40:25 +0000

Thank you for the disown tip. Very nice article!

George.

By: Aggdata

Aggdata — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:28:37 +0000

Hi There
My nohup keeps ending with “Cancel request sent”

nohup Scriptfile.ksh > Scriptlog.log 2>&1 &

this happens even when I nohup it as you can see above

Any help would be much appreciated

By: ashah

ashah — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:36:58 +0000

Question: I started a nohup foo & . Now I want to stop it… is there a way to end the process even though I ‘nohupped’ it prior?

The process had an error and stopped running, but I am still logged into the server even after I close my SSH terminal.

Thanks in advance!

By: Russell

Russell — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:53:04 +0000

Thanks! I needed a shell script to run a program, without it closing as soon as the script was over!

By: Solaris

Solaris — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:21:13 +0000

I found these two methods googling:

Method 1:
- start the process from console
- send it to background CTRL + Z
- then disown -a

Method 2:
nohup command

By: billyduc

billyduc — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:07:23 +0000

I have the situation…
I did ssh to the remote server. Run the yum -y update command without nohup!
The updating run for a while and I want to log out off the remote server…and I want yum still run even I log out..
How can I use ‘nohup’ without canceling my update !
thanks for any suggestions !!

By: Dan Grindstaff

Dan Grindstaff — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:27:55 +0000

Hi and thanks for the reply. I am seeing error messages that files cannot be found that I know are present in a different folder (where it should be looking). That is what concerned me that I might have forced the process to look only in it’s current directory with “./”. When I get the prompt back I can ps and see the job running.

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:05:57 +0000

What kind of error you get in log files? When you get prompt back what do you see with ps and jobs command?

By: Dan Grindstaff

Dan Grindstaff — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:54:23 +0000

I just checked with my Unix admin who thinks that it does not matter whether you include the ./ in the nohup string. Also, If I hit return during the process I get my prompt back and can run a monitoring script.

By: Dan Grindstaff

Dan Grindstaff — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:10:23 +0000

Thanks for the reply. Yes command is in current directory but nohup log lists several complaints about not being able to find various files. Also, when executing, I was expecting to be returned to the command prompt which I was not.

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:05:57 +0000

./ means run command from current directory. Do you have command in current dir?

By: Dan Grindstaff

Dan Grindstaff — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:56:06 +0000

I used nohup as follows… nohup ./command &. Did I make a mistake in putting the “./” in front of the command when executing it?

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:12:25 +0000

Thanks. Excellent for those lengthy commits!