Start a job that does not end when my terminal session does?

Question

How can I start a job on a *nix system that will not exit when my session exits?

possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/285015/linux-prevent-a-background-process-from-being-stopped-after-closing-ssh-client — Ether, Apr 10 '10 at 17:08

newdayrising · Answer 1 · 2010-04-10T13:34:55.247

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nohup your_process &

edited Apr 10 '10 at 13:34

answered Apr 10 '10 at 13:27

newdayrising

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 10 '10 at 13:31

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Use the command nohup, and then add an ampersand (&) at the end to put the job in the background.

$ nohup ./fetch_command > fetch_log_file &

Then you can exit the shell and the job will continue running.

answered Apr 10 '10 at 13:31

JSchaefer

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