Discussion on: How to keep a process running even after closing SSH connection?

[Loki Le DEV]

There is also the nohup command

[Loki Le DEV]

Just be careful because by default it opens a nohup.out file and appends all output of the process you launched into this file. It can grow a lot.

[Hakan Bayındır]

If you're afraid of filling your disk, just toss the output to /dev/null during the command invocation ;)

[Vimalraj Selvam]

I highly recommend this command, we use this on daily basis instead of 3rd party tools.

[Bobby Iliev]

Thanks for sharing Loik! I’ll definitely check it out!

[Krishnanunni R]

If I may ask how do you handle killing the process?

[drewmullen]

This is my go-to

nohup command ... &