man/cat1p/nohup.1p.txt
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nohup(P) nohup(P)
NAME nohup - invoke a utility immune to hangups SYNOPSIS nohup utility [argument...] DESCRIPTION The nohup utility shall invoke the utility named by the utility operand with arguments supplied as the argument operands. At the time the named utility is invoked, the SIGHUP signal shall be set to be ignored. If the standard output is a terminal, all output written by the named utility to its standard output shall be appended to the end of the file nohup.out in the current directory. If nohup.out cannot be created or opened for appending, the output shall be appended to the end of the file nohup.out in the directory specified by the HOME environment variable. If neither file can be cre- ated or opened for appending, utility shall not be invoked. If a file is created, the file's permission bits shall be set to S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR. If the standard error is a terminal, all output written by the named utility to its standard error shall be redirected to the same file descriptor as the standard output. OPTIONS None. OPERANDS The following operands shall be supported: utility The name of a utility that is to be invoked. If the utility operand names any of the special built-in utilities in Special Built-In Utilities , the results are undefined. argument Any string to be supplied as an argument when invoking the utility named by the utility oper- and. STDIN Not used. INPUT FILES None. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES The following environment variables shall affect the execution of nohup: HOME Determine the pathname of the user's home direc- tory: if the output file nohup.out cannot be cre- ated in the current directory, the nohup utility shall use the directory named by HOME to create the file. LANG Provide a default value for the internationaliza- tion variables that are unset or null. (See the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 8.2, Internationalization Variables for the precedence of internationalization variables used to determine the values of locale cate- gories.) LC_ALL If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of all the other internationalization variables. LC_CTYPE Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to multi- byte characters in arguments). LC_MESSAGES Determine the locale that should be used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic mes- sages written to standard error. NLSPATH Determine the location of message catalogs for the processing of LC_MESSAGES . PATH Determine the search path that is used to locate the utility to be invoked. See the Base Defini- tions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Chapter 8, Environment Variables. ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS The nohup utility shall take the standard action for all signals except that SIGHUP shall be ignored. STDOUT If the standard output is not a terminal, the standard output of nohup shall be the standard output generated by the execution of the utility specified by the oper- ands. Otherwise, nothing shall be written to the stan- dard output. STDERR If the standard output is a terminal, a message shall be written to the standard error, indicating the name of the file to which the output is being appended. The name of the file shall be either nohup.out or $HOME/nohup.out. OUTPUT FILES If the standard output is a terminal, all output written by the named utility to the standard output and standard error is appended to the file nohup.out, which is cre- ated if it does not already exist. EXTENDED DESCRIPTION None. EXIT STATUS The following exit values shall be returned: 126 The utility specified by utility was found but could not be invoked. 127 An error occurred in the nohup utility or the utility specified by utility could not be found. Otherwise, the exit status of nohup shall be that of the utility specified by the utility operand. CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS Default. The following sections are informative. APPLICATION USAGE The command, env, nice, nohup, time, and xargs utilities have been specified to use exit code 127 if an error occurs so that applications can distinguish "failure to find a utility" from "invoked utility exited with an error indication". The value 127 was chosen because it is not commonly used for other meanings; most utilities use small values for "normal error conditions" and the values above 128 can be confused with termination due to receipt of a signal. The value 126 was chosen in a simi- lar manner to indicate that the utility could be found, but not invoked. Some scripts produce meaningful error messages differentiating the 126 and 127 cases. The dis- tinction between exit codes 126 and 127 is based on KornShell practice that uses 127 when all attempts to exec the utility fail with [ENOENT], and uses 126 when any attempt to exec the utility fails for any other rea- son. EXAMPLES It is frequently desirable to apply nohup to pipelines or lists of commands. This can be done by placing pipe- lines and command lists in a single file; this file can then be invoked as a utility, and the nohup applies to everything in the file. Alternatively, the following command can be used to apply nohup to a complex command: nohup sh -c 'complex-command-line' RATIONALE The 4.3 BSD version ignores SIGTERM and SIGHUP, and if ./nohup.out cannot be used, it fails instead of trying to use $HOME/nohup.out. The csh utility has a built-in version of nohup that acts differently from the nohup defined in this volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001. The term utility is used, rather than command, to high- light the fact that shell compound commands, pipelines, special built-ins, and so on, cannot be used directly. However, utility includes user application programs and shell scripts, not just the standard utilities. Historical versions of the nohup utility use default file creation semantics. Some more recent versions use the permissions specified here as an added security pre- caution. Some historical implementations ignore SIGQUIT in addi- tion to SIGHUP; others ignore SIGTERM. An early proposal allowed, but did not require, SIGQUIT to be ignored. Several reviewers objected that nohup should only modify the handling of SIGHUP as required by this volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001. FUTURE DIRECTIONS None. SEE ALSO Shell Command Language , sh , the System Interfaces volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, signal() COPYRIGHT Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operat- ing System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Speci- fications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Insti- tute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.open- group.org/unix/online.html . POSIX 2003 nohup(P) |