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).