Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > According to ROTH, MATTHEW G (ATTSI) on 2/22/2008 9:06 AM: > | In RHEL 5 with coreutils 5.97 the following does not work: > | > | $ /usr/bin/nohup /usr/bin/logname > | /usr/bin/nohup: appending output to `nohup.out' > | > | $ cat nohup.out > | /usr/bin/logname: no login name > > I'm not sure why that is failing for you. It worked just fine for me: > $ logname > eblake > $ nohup logname > nohup: ignoring input and appending output to `nohup.out' > $ cat nohup.out > eblake > $ nohup --version | head -n1 > nohup (GNU coreutils) 6.10 > $ logname --version | head -n1 > logname (GNU coreutils) 6.10 > > Perhaps an strace would shed some light?
That appears to be a bug in glibc in that getlogin uses the terminal connected to stdin instead of the controlling terminal. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
