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From: david@utzoo.UUCP (David Trueman)
Newsgroups: general
Subject: nohup command changed 
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Date: Tue, 6-Dec-83 20:34:53 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  6 20:34:53 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 6-Dec-83 20:34:53 EST
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As most people will recall, we have recently stressed the importance of using
"nohup" when a command is run "in the background" (appending an ampersand
to the command line) prior to signing off.  The nohup command has now been
changed so that any (possibly unexpected) output is mailed to the person
invoking it rather than being saved in a file (nohup.out).

There is no change to the way nohup is used, only the destination of the
output has changed.  To use it, one should still type, for example,

	% nohup ms -p lpr myfile &