On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 02:47:19PM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > For any interested parties. I got a tip to try out nohup again. The > problem I was having earlier is that nohup tries to create a file > called "nohup.out". Since I was sudo-ing to "tomcat" this was a > problem because user tomcat did not have access to my user's home > directories. Here's the fix: > > if [ $RESTART_TOMCAT -eq 1 ]then > cd /tmp > echo "- Startup Tomcat" > sudo -u tomcat nohup /opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh > sudo -u tomcat rm nohup.out > Fi > echo "- Tailing CATALINA.OUT" > tail -f /opt/tomcat/logs/catalina.out Instead of bothering with the rm command, you can prevent nohup from creating nohup.out by redirecting standard output somewhere other than the terminal: nohup cmd >/dev/null 2>&1 However, that will prevent the user from seeing the information on the terminal (obviously). You can trick nohup and still see the information by using the tee command: nohup cmd | tee 2>&1 -chris
