On Jan 31, 2006, at 11:46 AM, Jukka Salmi wrote:
>>> 	[1]   Terminated              sleep 30 >/dev/null 2>&1
>>
>> man nohup
>
> Hmm, I don't think this helps...
>
> $ nohup sleep 30 >/dev/null 2>&1 &
> [1] 17842
> $ kill $! >/dev/null 2>&1
> [1] + Terminated           nohup sleep 30 > /dev/null 2>&1

Follow the nohup by a "disown %1", which will remove the task from  
interacting with your shell.  Of course, either your shell needs to  
support the disown functionality, or the task you run needs to have  
the capability.  Otherwise consider:

     /usr/sbin/daemon echo "yeah" 2>&1 > /dev/null

You could also hunt down DJB's daemontools, which have similar  
intentions...

-- 
-Chuck