Running Background process in remote server using ssh

If you are handling remote server using ssh, you may require this. Last week I was trying to run my meteor application on the server using ssh. I started the meteor app on the server using ssh. But when I logged out from the ssh console, the meteor app stopped. I wanted a solution to run a background process in the server. So that the process I started won’t exit even If I logged out from the ssh console. The following commands worked:

First, I started the process(for me its my meteor app) as background process using & at the end of command as shown below:

	$ meteor -p 4040 >> ~/myapp.log &

Then I got the output with the processId, like this:

	$ meteor -p 4040 >> ~/myapp.log &
	[1] 11436

which shows two things [1] is the job-number for the background job and the 11436 is the pID for that particular job

Now use the $ bg command to move the job to background, bg resumes the suspended process in the background.

Now use disown command to remove the process from job table, so that the process will be running in the background even when we logged out from the ssh console.

	$ disown %1

The %1 is the job number to be removed from the job table, which we can get either from the output of the first command or you can use the $ jobs command to find the job number. which lists the status of all running jobs with their job number.