Running jobs on a server.

[Graaf_van_Vlaanderen]

What is the trick to start for example a job on a server through an ssh connection and to be able to disconnect without killing the still running job? I guess it's the same as keeping a task running under you username after logout.
Any thoughts?

 

[mk]

$ top [b]&[/b]
thus send in background. take a look at sysutils/screen too

 

[aragon]

Rather sysutils/tmux instead of screen.

But yup, you can just background the job and logout.

 

[mickey]

See nohup(1)

 

[crsd]

Or, if you need to execute job later, at specified time, try using at()

 

[anomie]

All good suggestions, and to the list I'd add cron(8). (at(1) is definitely more appropriate for one-off jobs, though.)