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by threePointFive 735 days ago
Nohup still attaches to the terminal's stdin/out/err. If the process is known to be non-interactive, redirecting to log files should be sufficient (tail -f to "reattach"). If it does expect interaction, creating a fifo file to redirect stdin from should work, but I've never tested it.
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nohub doesn't attach nor redirect the stdin/out/err, it intercepts the HUP signal that apps receive when their controlling TTYs are disconnected.

Implying "tail -f $LOGFILE" is akin to tmux reattaching to a console is a stretch.

The standard Unix version of nohup does in fact redirect the output/error streams if they would otherwise go to a terminal. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695299/utilities/no... / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nohup