On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 09:28:32AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Using "nohup sleep 500 >/dev/null 2>&1 &" does the same thing. How about these: nohup sleep 500 >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null & nohup sleep 500 >&- 2>&- <&- &