For years, I've used 'nohup' to execute some task in the background, letting me log off from the machine and look for the result a while later.
This does not work in Fedora 44 (beta), with coreutils 9.11 installed from source, in two specific desktop environments. How to reproduce: Create this script: ================== nh ================== #!/bin/sh sleep 60; echo done > $HOME/nh.out ======================================== $ chmod a+x nh The steps are: 1. Log into the machine via the login manager. 2. Start a terminal. 3. Execute the command nohup ./nh & 4. Terminate the terminal by typing Ctrl-D. 5. Log out within fewer than 30 seconds. 6. A few minutes later, look whether nh.out was created (e.g. via an ssh session). Results: Desktop: GNOME Terminal: ptyxis-agent nh.out created? yes Desktop: KDE Terminal: konsole nh.out created? yes Desktop: MATE Terminal: mate-terminal nh.out created? yes Desktop: Xfce Terminal: xfce4-terminal nh.out created? yes Desktop: LXDE Terminal: lxterminal nh.out created? no Desktop: LXQt Terminal: qterminal nh.out created? no In these two desktop environments, the 'nh.out' file was not created (although there is more than 9 GB room on the disk, as shown by "df"). Bruno
