nohup
nohup runs background processes uninterruptedly even the remote SSH session goes offline.
nohup mycmd &
You can also lower the priority for the background process
nohup nice mycmd &
Output¶
The output will be in nohup.out by default. If you want to customize the output location, just redirect it:
nohup mycmd &> log.txt &
To monitor what is inside nohup.out
tail -f nohup.out
End the running process¶
When you're done, you can kill the process by the process ID (PID).
ps -aux | grep mycmd
kill PID