#Name

nohup - Invoke a utility that will ignore SIGHUPs

#Synopsis

$ nohup <utility> [args...]

#Description

nohup will invoke utility given an optional list of args, where at the time of the invocation it will ignore the SIGHUP signal.

If the standard output is a tty, utility will append its standard output to the end of the file nohup.out in the current directory. If nohup.out fails to be created or opened for appending, utility's standard output will instead be appended to the end of the file $HOME/nohup.out. If this also fails, utility won't be invoked. nohup.out's permission bits are set to S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR when it is created.

If standard error is a tty, one out of the following will occur:

1. If the standard output is open but not a tty, utility will redirect its standard error to its standard output.
2. If the standard output is a tty or is closed, standard error shall be appended to the end of nohup.out as described above.

#Arguments

• utility: Utility to be invoked
• args: Arguments to pass to utility

#Exit Status

• 126 - utility was found but could not be invoked.
• 127 - Either utility could not be found or an error occurred in nohup.