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From: mkg@whuxlm.UUCP (Marsh Gosnell)
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Subject: Re: ps problem
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Date: Tue, 29-Jan-85 22:50:35 EST
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The reason "nohup ps &" produces no output (it just prints the header
line) is that ps with no args defaults to the "current" tty.  The name
of the"current" tty is derived via a ttyname() call which, since stderr is
redirected into a file by nohup does not yield the desired result.
  Marsh Gosnell  whuxlk!mkg  AT&T Bell Laboratories