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From: alan@drivax.UUCP (Alan Fargusson)
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Subject: Re: ps problem
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Date: Tue, 29-Jan-85 19:20:26 EST
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> The command:
> 
>    nohup ps &
> 
> does not produce any output on my 3b20S.

I found that 'ps 2>temp' also dosen't work. I think that ps
uses fd 2 to find out what your process group is, and nohup
redirects it so ps can't find out your process group.
-- 

Alan Fargusson.

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