[ILUG] Getting nohup to flush!

[Gavin McCullagh]

Thanks, those were all very interesting answers.

Gavin

On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Kenn Humborg wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 09:40:51AM +0000, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 	quick question here, don't know if this is possible or if anyone
> > will have any answers.  I frequently run a script which will go for maybe
> > acouple of weeks running various computations.  Due to the time involved,
> > it is sensible use nohup, in order that should I log out, or X gets
> > restarted or the network connection to that machine goes down (etc
> > etc...), the script keeps going regardless.  
> 
> Not the question yo uwere asking, but...
> 
> If you use bash, there's no need for nohup.  Just background the job.
> Bash will automatically do the necessary magic to keep the job alive
> one the shell quits.  I use it regularly for big wget jobs overnight
> at the office:
> 
>    wget <url> &
>    logout
> 
> Come in in the morning, and it's done.
> 
> Regarding flushing stdout of another process - don't think there is
> any way to do this.  The data is buffered in the process's libc, not
> in the kernel, so it's a user-land problem, rather than a kernel 
> issue.
> 
> Later,
> Kenn
> 
>