[PLUG] unwanted nohup behavior

Mike De La Mater mikedela at ipns.com
Wed Mar 12 09:54:02 UTC 2003


I'm running a program as part of a distributed project folding protiens. 
distributedfolding.org

The thing is that I want to run the program, but I need to close the terminal. At 
the suggestion of some helpful individuals on the list, I'm using nohup. 

It works like a champ. Unfortunately the program generates a little graphic of the 
protien it's folding and nohup thinks of this as somethig tht needs to be logged to 
nohup.out. When nohup.out fills that partition, it causes me pain. Being a true pain 
avoider, I'm interested in a fix.

Can I delete the nohup.out file in a cron job? A dialy rm should do it, but will I 
cause any problems with this approach?

Mike De La Mater
mikedela at ipns.com
503-702-6749 







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