<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Neal Rhodes via Ale" <ale@ale.org><br><b>To: </b>"Jerald Sheets" <questy@gmail.com><br><b>Cc: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale@ale.org>, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney@gmail.com><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, July 31, 2019 10:39:50 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] After 15 years, Nohup is sttll broken???<br></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br>Yes, we have gone back to use "at" instead, which DOES work no matter <br>how the tty/ssh session dies. But I still find it curious.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Try the daemon utility. I use it often. <br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>It allows you to run foreground scripts/programs like a daemon. It will capture output, respawn the command on error, etc. It allows you to give each instance a symbolic name so you can use the daemon utility to query status, restart, etc.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>http://libslack.org/daemon/manpages/daemon.1.html</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div></div></div></body></html>