Re: nohup feature request / Please fwd to Jim Meyering

[Andreas Schwab]

Jack van de Vossenberg <address@hidden> writes:

> Dear Jim
>
> I use nohup (ubuntu linux), and I have a feature request.
> Often I run more than one program at a time under nohup, and some of these
> programs run for at least a couple of hours.
>
> Every now and then nohup writes the output to nohup.out, which I find very 
> useful.

nohup does not produce the output by itself, it's done directly by the
executed command.  In fact, nohup just sets up the signals and
redirection and the replaces itself by directly executing the command.

> My request is: could the output be preceded by
> 1) the name/PID of the process that produces the output.
> 2) the time that the output was produced.

There is no way to control the output after the command is executed.  If
you want to know which command produces which output redirect it
manually to different files.

Andreas.

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