.TH NOHUP 1 .SH NAME nohup \- run a command immune to hangups .SH SYNOPSIS .B nohup command [ arguments ] .SH DESCRIPTION .I Nohup executes .I command with signals 1, 3 and 13 (hangup, quit and soft kill) ignored. The priority of the command is run at nice \-5. Signal 2 (interrupt) will be ignored if the command is run asynchronously (with &) from the shell. If the command whould have had a terminal as standard output, it is redirected to the file `nohup.out'. .SH FILES nohup.out redirected standard output. .SH "SEE ALSO" nice(1), signal(2)