david@utzoo.UUCP (David Trueman) (12/07/83)
As most people will recall, we have recently stressed the importance of using "nohup" when a command is run "in the background" (appending an ampersand to the command line) prior to signing off. The nohup command has now been changed so that any (possibly unexpected) output is mailed to the person invoking it rather than being saved in a file (nohup.out). There is no change to the way nohup is used, only the destination of the output has changed. To use it, one should still type, for example, % nohup ms -p lpr myfile &