[SOLVED] nohup command not working in chef resources

Issue

I am trying to execute

>nohup.out
nohup ./example.sh &

which comes under my main.sh file. I am calling the main.sh from my bash resource in Chef. However, the STDERR is thrown when I run the chef-client. Shouldn't it go to nohup.out ?

Solution

From nohup manual:

If standard input is a terminal, redirect it from /dev/null. If standard >output is a terminal, append output to 'nohup.out' if possible, >'$HOME/nohup.out' otherwise. If standard error is a terminal, redirect it >to standard output.

So to have stderr redirected to nohup.out you should first redirect it to stdout:

nohup 2>&1 ./example.sh &

Answered By - mauro