How to run nohup on boot while writing nohup.out to a selected directory-CodePudding

Im going to have to run a nohup command that will run for months and generate tons of logs, so I want to write the nohup.out file to a directory that contains the rest of the code. My simple script to execute on every startup is:

sudo su ubuntu
cd /home/ubuntu/folder
nohup /home/ubuntu/folder/start_server.sh&

If I do a crontab job that runs the script, all of the nohup logs still go into /var/log/syslog.

If I do the same with cloud-init since im working on ec2, all logs into /var/log/cloud-init-output.log.

How can I make nohup run in a choosen directory (/home/ubuntu/folder in my case) only?

CodePudding user response：

The solution was to run crontab with my starting script running nohup /home/ubuntu/folder/start_server.sh > nohup.out instead of just nohup /home/ubuntu/folder/start_server.sh&