& vs nohup

[David A. Bandel]

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On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 23:01:08 +0800
"M.W. Chang" <mwchang at i-cable.com> wrote:

> 
> What's the difference between "command &" and "nohup command"?

some processes (and this is also shell dependent), will exit when the
controlling tty exits.  The nohup command allows you to exit by acting
as the controlling tty (although if the process requires input it will
hang until you kill it).

> 
> I tried to run `btdownloadheadless --responsefile abc.torrent --saveas
> 
> abc &`. The process stopped instantly. However, doing the same with
> `nohup btdownloadheadless --responsefile abc.torrent --saveas abc` can
> 
> keep it going, with output directed to nohup.txt.

yep.  That's normal behavior.

Ciao

David A. Bandel
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