Hi hi,

I have a problem with nohup that has really given me a headache. If you guys can help me with this, it'd really make my life a whole lot easier.

I assume you are familiar with nohup if you are replying to this thread. If I cd into /home/chibi and type nohup ./myfile & it will create a file called nohup.out located at /home/chibi/nohup.out and log all of myfile's output to it. This is true in a regular environment and circumstances.

Unfortunately, the environment that I am working in allows me to execute commands, but not through a terminal. Where the command is sent, has no write permissions whatsoever. So any nohup command I do just doesn't work because it wants to write nohup.out in the same directory the command was executed from. But as far as I know there isn't a directory! But again even if there is, there is no write permissions there at all.

So what I really need is, even though I am executing the command in /home/chibi/ , I need it to tell nohup to put its output file somewhere else like /pub/logs/nohup.out for instance.

Is this possible and how would I go about doing this?

Your help is greatly appreciated. I have a horrid work around for this right now, but it creates zombie processes that eventually cause services to stop working, requiring them to be restarted.

Thank you!

-Chi

Looking at the docs (man nohup and info coreutils nohup) makes me believe you can get the output unless the environment or command you are using create a permission or identity problem. However, you will not be able to specify a location given the allowable arguments.

I say this not from experience but from the docs that say if nohup.out can't be written to in the default destination, it will be sent to $HOME/nohup.out. One thing to note though is the detail that it creates no group or other permissions. Seems you can get around that by creating the file beforehand with the permissions you desire as the docs say it does not change them.

Again, this is only from my reading the docs so I may be way out in left field.

Good luck.