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(nohup invocation): Clarify nohup.out creation.

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Paul Eggert
2005-03-19 00:46:16 +00:00
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@@ -12473,20 +12473,16 @@ nohup @var{command} [@var{arg}]@dots{}
@end example
@flindex nohup.out
If standard output is a terminal, it is redirected so that it is appended
If standard output is a terminal, the command's standard output is appended
to the file @file{nohup.out}; if that cannot be written to, it is appended
to the file @file{$HOME/nohup.out}. If that cannot be written to, the
to the file @file{$HOME/nohup.out}; and if that cannot be written to, the
command is not run.
If standard output is not a terminal, then the standard output of
@var{command} will be the same as that of @command{nohup}.
If @command{nohup} creates either @file{nohup.out} or
@file{$HOME/nohup.out}, it creates it with no ``group'' or ``other''
access permissions. It does not change the permissions if the output
file already existed.
Any @file{nohup.out} or @file{$HOME/nohup.out} file created by
@command{nohup} is made readable and writable only to the user,
regardless of the current umask settings.
If standard error is a terminal, it is redirected to the same file
descriptor as the standard output.
descriptor as the (possibly-redirected) standard output.
@command{nohup} does not automatically put the command it runs in the
background; you must do that explicitly, by ending the command line