nohup:ignoring input and appending output to 'nohup.out'

user3809096 picture user3809096 · Jul 9, 2014 · Viewed 90.3k times · Source

I want to start my server through nohup.php but the command is not running and displays following error

nohup:ignoring input and appending output to 'nohup.out'

I am using ssh through putty, this is what i am doing

nohup php server1.php

Answer

lpaseen picture lpaseen · Jul 10, 2014

That's not an error - it's normal behavior. It just informs you that once started the in/output is removed from your console.

To avoid the message you need to start it like

nohup php server1.php </dev/null &>/dev/null &