On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 06:06:56PM -0400, bruce wrote: > anyway i can redirect the err/out to the stdout.. instead of the > nohut.out file?? The usual way would be to do a tail -f on the output file, e.g., nohup cat.sh 2>&1 >cat.log tail -f cat.log If you're using bash, IIRC, you could reap the background ID and then use 'disown', I suppose. "$!" should give you that. Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat President, DMINET Consulting, Inc. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org