Prevent an already running background process from being stopped after closing SSH client

Question

I have a process running on my Linux machine (Debian squeeze) that takes hours (or days) to finish.

I don't want to stop it to restart it again with screen, tmux or with an output redirect to nohup.

Is there a secure way to put it in the background with ^Z and bg so it will continue once I close the ssh-session?

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

use

commandtoexecute &> /dev/null &

it will run your process in the background, and prints all output to /dev/null.

Replace /dev/null with another file to see the output.

e.g. commandtoexecute &> /tmp/file1 &

use tail -f /tmp/file1 to attach to output again

If you want to detatch from a process that is allready running. Use disown <pid> where pid is your process id.

You could also change the terminal to another terminal:

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