How to prevent a background process from being stopped after closing SSH client in Linux

Question

I\'m working on a Linux machine through SSH (Putty). I need to leave a process running during the night, so I thought I could do that by starting the process in background (

Answer 1

Append this string to your command: >&- 2>&- <&- &. >&- means close stdout. 2>&- means close stderr. <&- means close stdin. & means run in the background. This works to programmatically start a job via ssh, too:

$ ssh myhost 'sleep 30 >&- 2>&- <&- &'
# ssh returns right away, and your sleep job is running remotely
$