Questions tagged [nohup]
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Can I nohup/screen an already-started process?
I'm doing some test-runs of long-running data migration scripts, over SSH. Let's say I start running a script around 4 PM; now, 6 PM rolls around, and I'm cursing myself for not doing this all in ...
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How to run script via SSH that doesn't end when I close connection?
I need to run script, that takes long time to execute, or I just want it to run forever. I can't just SSH to my machine, because when I disconnect it stops running.
Is there any way to run script ...
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how to rotate nohup.out file without killing my application
My nohup.out file is growing fast.
I am running an application in the background, it's writing nohup.out file,
now I need to rotate nohup.out file without killing my application. Can this be done?
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Redirect nohup to stdout
Is it possible to let a process started with nohup, write to stdout instead of in a file? or maybe in the file and on the screen?
nohup python start.py &
writes to nohup.out, but I'd like it to ...
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There is any way to run processes in the background in Windows? nohup equivalent for windows
nohup runs a process in the background. There is any equivalent for Windows?
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What does the ampersand (&) symbol mean with `nohup`?
Ive seen tons of examples where a & follows the end of a command string, but I can't seem to find an explanation on what it does. It's not even in nohup's man page. Is this a shell thing?
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Using nohup when initial input is required
On a linux system is there any way to use nohup when the process that is being nohuped required input, such as an rsync command that needs a password to be entered but will then run happily on its own?...
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How do I get nohup.out flushed more often?
On Ubuntu 10.04, I have a long Python program that prints a bunch of output; I run this under "nohup". However, it waits until the end to put all the text in nohup.out. When I run similar programs ...
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nohup multiple sequential commands
I need to nohup two commands, one after another. The second command has to be executed AFTER the first command. Here are the commands:
tar -zcf archive.tar.gz.tmp mydir
mv archive.tar.gz.tmp archive....
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rsync termiates after a while unexpectedly
I run a rsync command with nohup in ssh session, but after a while it returns this error:
rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at rsync.c(549) [generator=3.0.9]
rsync error: ...
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nohup vs screen vs ? for manually starting daemon processes
When I need to start a background process on a low-importance server, I tend to use nohup:
nohup ./server.sh &
Most colleagues seem to prefer screen:
screen -D -R mydaemon
./mydaemon.sh
^A ^D
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job control and ssh
I can't seem to figure out a decent way to manage jobs over ssh. I want to start a job in an ssh session, logout, log back in, do a fg, check on the job, logout, then repeat the whole process. nohup ...
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How to run rsync without staying logged in?
I want to run the following rsync command to transfer a folder from a remote server to my current one sudo -r -a -v -e 'ssh -p portnum' username@serverip:/home/path/* /home/path this directory is ...
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How do I find out the process id of the backgrounded process?
I've got a command (program) that I'd like to run with nohup and background it. Like
nohup command > logfile.txt &
How do I find out the process ID? I would like to be able to write the ...
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How to use nohup to continue to run a command after the user logout?
nohup <command> <arg> &
When I SSH into a Linux server, if I want to run a command and make sure that it will continue to run in the background after I logout from SSH, I will use the ...
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nohup - no such file or directory
I'm trying to execute the following command on my CentOS 6.3 x64 server:
nohup "/usr/local/bin/php -v"
The result is:
nohup: ignoring input and appending output to `nohup.out'
nohup: failed to run ...
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Linux process management
I started a long running background-process (dd with /dev/urandom) in my ssh console. Later I had to disconnect. When I logged in, again (this time directly, without ssh), the process still seemed to ...
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Estimating MySQL Query Runtime
I ran a MySQL query from command line using the following:
nohup mysql --user=root --password=XXXXXXXXX database < report.sql > results.tab
This query is extensive (5000 lines) and running a ...
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How can I flush stdout for a process under nohup?
Is there a way to flush the buffer that nohup buffers stdout? From what I read in various places (eg. some place) is that I can modify the behaviour from within my programm. But that would be specific ...
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Move a running process in background and keep it running even if you disconnect
You already have a running process and you want to put it to run in background.
If you want to be sure that this will still run after you close you ssh connection, what should you do?
Note: you are ...
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reattaching a process started with nohup?
Is it possible to reattach a process started with nohup?
For example, start in a terminal:
nohup tail -f /dev/null &
Close the terminal. Now open a new terminal. How do you reattach the nohup'd ...
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trap "" HUP v.s Nohup ? How can I run a portion of shell script in nohub mode?
I want to run a shell script over the weekend, but I wanna make sure if the terminal loses
the connection, my script won't be terminated. I use nohup for the whole script invokation, but I also want ...
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Remote synchronous-then-asynchronous execution with SSH
TL;DR
I want to remotely execute a script that begins synchronously (so that the local ssh command fails if the preparatory commands fail) and then goes asynchronous, thus terminating the local ssh ...
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Can I nohup/resume an existing tar process initiation in a ssh session?
First, if I stop a tar process, will it resume from where it left off or will it have to go through all the directories again (a lot of directories and files).
Second, am I correctly "disown"ing this ...
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Nohup linux command waits for an additional return, how do I prevent this?
I'm running the following inside a bash script:
nohup java server_program.jar &
I want that to start running and go about its merry way. However, for some reason it says that it is ignoring ...
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how to convert a running process into a nohup and keep a logfile
I have a process currently occupying a terminal
]$ command some_argument
I want to exit from the terminal and go home, but in the mean time I don't want to kill this running process.
For the ...
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Using nohup on Solaris 10
I need to transfer a large number of files over SFTP (only between Solaris servers) which takes a very long time. I cannot keep my PC on for this duration. I tried:
nohup sftp server1
While the ...
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How do I prevent a nohup process from being killed when ssh connection fails
I'm having an odd problem. I have a server process that gets started with nohup, and persists across logout and re-login just fine. However if I leave myself logged in and then get the "broken pipe" ...
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How can I return to nohup after logout?
I'm working on an AIX and cannot install screen but want to use its capabilities. Basically I want to be able to run a session (maybe logout), then the same user but logged in again to be able to get ...
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Simple progress for rsync when piping output to a log file
I ran rsync with nohup and --progress:
nohup rsync --progress --[other-options] source destination &
tail -f nohup.out
When I'm tailing the file, I see the output with a changing last line (...
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Mysterious per-session CPU limiting?
TL;DR: CPU-hungry processes are sharing cores on a multi-core server while other cores sit idle, whereas I expect the Linux scheduler to distribute jobs evenly across cores. What could cause this ...
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can you run a shell command via nohup at later time?
I'd like to run a script at 6pm on a remote server but don't want to wait around to trigger it. I don't want to use cron since it's a one time deal.
Can I do something like "nohup myscript &" ...
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terminate a processed launched by nohup
I have loaded debian etch into my NAS and I am trying to use it to routinely extract information from a website. Since there are quite a lot of pages to download, I used the nohup command, like this:
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Create nohup.out file based on date
I am using nohup command to run a java web server application. This is the command i am using:
nohup java -jar WEB-SNAPSHOT.jar &
This command will create a nohup.out and my server logs are ...
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`nohup: failed to run command 'node': No such file or directory` when running script through ssh
I have a remote server in which I serve a webserver using node (express) and nginx. I have a ./devops/deploy.sh script which starts the webserver and restarts nginx. Said script works correctly if I ...
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Using nohup on remote SSH script, inside the script itself
I'm trying to use nohup + redirection + background operator ("&") to run a remote script via SSH and disconnect.
This works:
ssh -n [email protected] 'nohup sudo /opt/scripts/do-thing.sh arg1 ...
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Nohup stops script after logging out
I have to run a python script in the background in my server. I am using the command:
nohup python MyScript.py &
in the command line. Now, when after running this I close the connection and log ...
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Why does my command stop when I exit SSH? [closed]
I am running the following command in a loop (without notable memory leaks) as a cPanel user:
nohup php ~/www/app/console.php run clean 1> /dev/null 2> ~/www/logs/run_clean.log &
But when ...
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Virtualbox: prevent a virtual machine to go down after I log out from the consolle I lanched the VM from
I have this problem.
I login remotely to a machine with Virtualbox installed by launching:
ssh -Y root@virtualbox
After that, I launch a Virtual Machine:
nohup VBoxSDL --startvm vm1
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nohup ...
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nohup multiple sequential commands not logging output
I have a python script (which takes a lot of time to complete the execution) that I need to run several times varying the parameters. And it's executed in a remote machine. For instance and test ...
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how to run nohup when prompted for password and/or input parameter
I typically use nohup like so:
nohup ./myscript.sh 11111 > nohup.out &
Where 11111 is an input parameter. In this case, the application is prompting for a password and I'm unable to use nohup....
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Keeping processes alive when closing SSH connection on MobaXTerm
I'm facing somme issue when trying to keep process alive when shutting down session in MobaXTerm.
I have a java process which should run on a linux server.
I am using two commands, nohup and screen.
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How to kill all process on ssh logout? (Kill running Background proccess started with screen etc)
Hi i have a multiuser centos server running. There are for example 3 users (non root) - each of them have their own homedir.
SSH Login is allowed (bash).
How could it be reached, if a user started ...
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nohup create multiple process
I am using nohup for the script run inotify command, because inotify stop when I exit from terminal so I want the script to run on background. so I run the script like this
nohup /path/to/script.sh &...
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How to kill the process using the name of the program instead of PID?
I started my Python program in the background using nohup as mentioned below -
nohup zook.py &
Now I am trying to kill this process so I did the ps command as mentioned below
root@phxdbx1145:/...
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`nohup` does not work properly with `&&`
I want to make a delayed background execution, for delay I use sleep [anyseconds] && [execution] for background I use nohup
Simple example of nohup alone:
nohup date &>> out.log &...
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How do I run a program as another user properly with "nohup" and "&" in bash
I have been learning bash and linux administration over the past few months while producing more and more code that needs to run in the background. I would ideally like to run my development system ...
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Run netcat in background on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04
I am trying to do a pg_dump from one server and simultaneously restore at the other server.
The command on source server (192.168.3.94):
pg_dumpall -v | nc 192.168.3.95 4000
The command on the ...
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nohup command on Mac
I connect to some mac machine using SSH and run a command similar to:
nohup /var/root/install.sh param1 param2 </dev/null >/var/root/vvv.out 2>&1 & echo '' ; echo ERROR_CODE:$?
It ...
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