.TH NOHUP 1 .SH NAME nohup \- ignore hangup signal .SH SYNOPSIS \fBnohup\fP \fIutility\fP [\fIargument\fP...] .SH DESCRIPTION The .B nohup utility runs \fIutility\fP while ignoring the SIGHUP signal. This allows the process to continue running after the current terminal exits, for example when logging off a telnet session. Unless output is explicitly redirected when invoking nohup, output is appended to a file named nohup.out. This file is created in the current directory or, if this is not possible, in $HOME. If the standard error stream is not explicitly redirected, it is sent to the standard output. .SH AUTHOR This manual page and the utility were written by Erik van der Kouwe .