From: utzoo!henry
Newsgroups: hacknews
Title: nohup bug fixed 
Article-I.D.: utzoo.2485
Posted: Tue Sep 21 22:50:00 1982
Received: Tue Sep 21 22:50:00 1982

Fixed a minor bug (mishandling of PATH) in nohup(1).  Note that use
of nohup is the preferred way to run something in the background if
it is intended to keep running after you sign off.  Simply tacking
an & on the end is not guaranteed to make the process survive signoff
(it does now, but this is not guaranteed to continue forever).