Re: Creating Log file - run in background.

Thanks, Gord!

You did a better job of clarifying than I did :-)

ghaverla(at)freenet(dot)edmonton(dot)ab(dot)ca wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, John Burski wrote:
>
> > Here's what the command is supposed to do:
> >
> > nohup - Execute the following command, making it immune to "hangups" and
> > with output to a non-tty device.
>
> Comes from hanging up the phone line connection to your computer.
> nohup => NO Hang UP
>
> > < /dev/null - Input is redirected from the bit-bucket. (Don't ask me why -
> > I've not looked closely enough at the nitty-gritty to understand that yet).
>
> When you read /dev/null, you immediately get
> end of file. Therefore, things don't get stalled
> waiting for input.
>
> > >> /usr/local/pgsql/data/server.log - Redirect anything output to stdout to
> > this file.
>
> Actually append. But yes it is a redirect.
>
> > 2>>1 - Redirect and append anything output to stderr to stdout. This
> > causes both stdout and stderr to be logged in the same file
>
> stdin is known as file descriptor 0,
> stdout is known as file descriptor 1,
> stderr is known as file descriptor 2,
>
> So, above "binds" stderr and stdout and redirects to file.
>
> Gord
>
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