yitz_ 1303439378 learn nohup - run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty. Lets you kill the parent process/connection/terminal. See also screen/tmux/etc lhunath 1368132388 forget lhunath 1368132479 learn nohup is a hacky wrapper that will execute a process and prevent SIGHUP from reaching it. From bash, you probably want disown instead: command ... & disown BlastHardcheese 1416366303 forget BlastHardcheese 1416366307 learn nohup is a hacky wrapper that will execute a process while redirecting its output and preventing SIGHUP from reaching it (some implementations ignore additional signals). In bash, you probably want disown instead: ''command ... & disown''. Alternately, run your commands inside screen or tmux.