Methinks that "screen" might be your best option here ...
Either that or have you tried using normal redirection ...
myproggie > outputfile 2>&1
then a "tail -f" on the outputfile should be enough !
Proinnsias
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: [ILUG] Getting nohup to flush!
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> However, it would appear that in most instances nohup
> buffers this and nothing gets written for the entire running of the
> script, hence I get no progress reports until the script exits.
>
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