[Dumbo]

OK, I would like to use nohup so I can run something on a server, log out and read the output of that program from a file when I log back in the next time.

I tried to do this:

remote_server% nohup find / -name "foo.txt" -print &
remote_server% exit

When I logged back in I couldn't find the nohup.out file even though the man pages claimed it should contain the output of my find command. Then I tried this:

remote_server% nohup find / -name "foo.txt" -print > nohup_ouptut.txt &
remote_server% exit

When I logged back in there was a file nohup_ouptut.txt but it was empty.

Can anybody here tell me how I can get this to work? It's important because I would like to let simulations run on a server, log out, take my PowerBook home over night, and check the results in the next morning. Right now, it's either leave the PowerBook at the office or kill the simulation run when you log out the PowerBook.

[Moonray]

It should work the way you tried. Of course, if the file(s) you are searching for don't exist you won't get any output.
Also if you exit immediately after issuing the command (because you run a script) there might be no time for nohup to start the 'find', so give it a second or two before logging out.

If everything fails, have a look at the 'screen' utility, it will allow you to keep a virtual terminal session open between logins. It's installed on OS X 10.2 so you can type 'man screen' for more info. You might need to install it on that remote machine though if it's not there.

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