Nohup.out help

Question

Hi Guys,
Last week, my mac book pro (running tiger 10.4.6) ran out of space. When I looked at it in detail, I saw that the nohup.out file in my home directory was 46GB. I deleted the file, cleared trash, rebooted and thought life was good again.
However, a couple of days on, the file is now 8gb big. I've tried opening the file using textedit and vi, but to no avail.
Could it be possible that Terminal's standard out is going into this file? I run a constant ping (to google) as long as my mac is running just to make sure that my internet connection is ok. Could the ping output also be piped to this file?
Any help will be much appreciated
Cheers

Answer 1

Tailing the nohup.out file resulted in the following being repeated again and again.
6:28:11.498 [stRelauncher ]CD is not yet mounted by OS
I have also noticed a strange terminal window that starts up with OSX that looks like this
Last login: Sat May 27 07:23:09 on console
/tempwiz/launch.command; exit
Welcome to Darwin!
MacBookPro:~ divyakantbengani$ /tempwiz/launch.command; exit
Process Id: 184
sending output to /Users/divyakantbengani/nohup.out
Process parent id: 178
Process parent id: 169
[Process was terminated by signal 9]
I have no doubt that this is the process writing to nohup.out, but dont have a clue why. I then went into /tempwiz and looked at launch.command. It contained the following script
cd /tempwiz
nohup ./stRelauncher /Volumes/STRESR532v6/stInstall.app &
id=`ps -o ppid -p $$ | tail -n 1`
id2=`ps -o ppid -p $id | tail -n 1`
echo "Process parent id: $id"
echo "Process parent id: $id2"
id3=`ps -o ppid -p $id2 | tail -n 1`
id4=`echo $TERMPROGRAMVERSION | cut -d '.' -f 1`
if test $id4 -gt 132
then
kill -9 $id2;
else
kill -9 $id3;
fi
Now STRESR532v6 is the firmware for my ADSL router. I have no idea why/how this is getting called here. Somehow I feel it's looking for the cd and when it's unable to find it, it's redirecting the output to nohup. I'm not sure, however, what stRelauncher is. I can also confirm that there is no disk in my cd drive.
Any help will be appreciated guys.
Thanks