#!/bin/sh # nohup -- run a command immume to hangups, with output to a non-tty # Copyright (C) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) # any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. # Written by David MacKenzie . # Make sure we get GNU nice, if possible; also allow # it to be somewhere else in PATH if not installed yet. PATH=@bindir@:$PATH if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then echo "Usage: nohup command [arg...]" 2>&1 exit 1 fi trap "" 1 oldmask=`umask`; umask 077 # Only redirect the output if the user didn't already do it. if [ -t 1 ]; then # If we cannot write to the current directory, use the home directory. if cat /dev/null >> nohup.out; then echo "nohup: appending output to \`nohup.out'" 2>&1 umask $oldmask exec nice -5 "$@" >> nohup.out 2>&1 else cat /dev/null >> $HOME/nohup.out echo "nohup: appending output to \`$HOME/nohup.out'" 2>&1 umask $oldmask exec nice -5 "$@" >> $HOME/nohup.out 2>&1 fi else umask $oldmask exec nice -5 "$@" fi