Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Put Linux process on the background and exit

you started a process on the foreground and need to put it in a background so you can exit the ssh shell, then you can run the following:


press [CTRL]+[Z]
bg
disown -h
exit




If you need to start a new process and put in background, you can use the nohup command as follow:

nohup ./loop.sh &