[Beowulf] Users abusing screen

[Reuti]

Am 24.10.2011 um 13:00 schrieb Gregory Matthews:

> Prentice Bisbal wrote:
>> Using nohup was exactly the advice I gave to one of my users yesterday.
>> Not sure if he'll use it. 'man' is a very difficult program to learn,
>> from what I understand.
> 
> our experience of ppl using nohup without really thinking it through is 
> eventually filling the partition with an enormous nohup.out file.

It's possible to make an alias, so that "nohup" reads "nohup > /dev/null"

The redirection doesn't need to be at the end of the command. Depends whether they need the output, and/or any output file is created by the application on its own anyway.

-- Reuti


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