Strange permission issue with nohup

[Thijs van der Vossen]

Here I'm trying to run the command from the cap deploy:start task:

[thijs@miller www]$ sudo -p 'sudo password: ' -u app sh -c 'cd /var/
www/boommanager/current && nohup script/spin'
nohup: failed to open `nohup.out': Permission denied
nohup: failed to open `/home/thijs/nohup.out': Permission denied

Anyone a suggestion why nohup is trying to write to /home/thijs/
nohup.out?

[Jamis Buck]

From "man nohup":

If the output file nohup.out cannot be created in the current
directory, the nohup utility uses the directory named by HOME
to create the file.

My guess is that since "sh -c" doesn't start a login shell, it is
inheriting the environment of the invoking shell, including the HOME
environment variable, and is trying to open it there.

- Jamis

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[Thijs van der Vossen]

On 31 Mar 2008, at 23:41, Jamis Buck wrote:
> From "man nohup":
>
> If the output file nohup.out cannot be created in the current
> directory, the nohup utility uses the directory named by HOME
> to create the file.
>
> My guess is that since "sh -c" doesn't start a login shell, it is
> inheriting the environment of the invoking shell, including the HOME
> environment variable, and is trying to open it there.

Thanks. The man page on your system is a lot more informative than the
one on RHEL5.

Kind regards,
Thijs

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[Jamis Buck]

On Mar 31, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Thijs van der Vossen wrote:
>
> On 31 Mar 2008, at 23:41, Jamis Buck wrote:
>> From "man nohup":
>>
>> If the output file nohup.out cannot be created in the current
>> directory, the nohup utility uses the directory named by HOME
>> to create the file.
>>
>> My guess is that since "sh -c" doesn't start a login shell, it is
>> inheriting the environment of the invoking shell, including the HOME
>> environment variable, and is trying to open it there.
>
> Thanks. The man page on your system is a lot more informative than the
> one on RHEL5.

OS X for the win! ;)

- Jamis

[Thijs van der Vossen]

I'll see if they can get me a few nice XServes at RackSpace. ;)

[expilo]

You can read about nohup in Debian as well :)

Piotr

On 1 Kwi, 00:11, Thijs van der Vossen <t.vandervos...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[David Masover]

My ubuntu had a fairly unhelpful manpage, which told me to read the info page -- which wasn't installed, so info defaulted to showing me the same manpage.

Much as I don't like OS X, I have to say, Apple wins this one.