I have a script that I'm using to capture some status of the server at 10 second intervals.The script is as follows:for (( ; ; ))do    /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl fullstatus    sleep 10doneAnd I am running the script using:nohup /path/to/scriptname.sh | gzip > logfile.log.gz &It will run in the background and keep running if I disconnect from ssh.  However, after about 3-4 hours the output stops getting transferred to the logfile.  The script is still running and shows up if I run ps -elf | grep scriptname, but the logfile does not update.  Why does the output stop sending?  Is this possibly a problem with the buffer?
Long running script stops sending output to file
shell script;rhel;background process;nohup
The gzip file format has an 8-byte footer containing a CRC-32 checksum and uncompressed length of the data. The DEFLATE file format is block-oriented. The gzip program in the pipeline is almost certainly buffering up input to use in the next output block. The 8-byte footer won't be written until after the long-running shell script exits, and gzip's stdin closes. I think you'll have to wait for a long while to see if DEFLATE blocks aren't periodically written to the log file.