Using sudo, child background process doesn't display output

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Issue

When trying to run following script /tmp/parent.sh:

#!/bin/bash
/tmp/child.sh &

where /tmp/child.sh reads:

#!/bin/bash
echo child output

via sudo:

sudo -u test /tmp/parent.sh

no output is printed.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.5
  • sudo-1.8.6p3-12.el6

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