where is the output goes when running as a background process?

Question

My process output some log information to the console windows. When I run it as a background process, where can I find the output logs?

Answer 1

Depends on the process and how you started it. If it writes to stdout (which is probable, given that the output is usually to the terminal), you can redirect the output to a file with

command > logfile &

If you also want to log error message from stderr, do

command > logfile 2> errorlogfile &

or

command > logfile 2>&1 &

to get everything in one file.