Re: nohup feature request / Please fwd to Jim Meyering

[James Youngman]

On 6/7/07, Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
> > My request is: could the output be preceded by
> > 1) the name/PID of the process that produces the output.
> > 2) the time that the output was produced.

As andreas points out, nohup isn't in the I/O path there and hence
can't do it.  You can do something similar to this with the
"logtstamp" configuration option of GNU screen, and you might also
want to investigate the "batch" command.

James.