[ILUG] Getting nohup to flush!

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

> Methinks that "screen" might be your best option here ... 

Yeah, the only thing is it's not installed on some of the machines (not
our machines).  Must have a look in detail at it though for other stuff.

> 
> Either that or have you tried using normal redirection ...
> myproggie > outputfile 2>&1
> then a "tail -f" on the outputfile should be enough !

Well, the syntax I'm using is:

nohup myprog >myfile &

but nohup takes over and buffers output to myfile.

> 
> 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.
> > 
> 
>