Keeping a remote process running after terminal disconnect
Quoting TheOneKEA at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/keeping-a-process-running-after-disconnect-150235/: nohup is what you want – it’s a wrapper that blocks the SIGHUP signal sent to all applications connected to a terminal when that terminal is closed by the shell. Just ssh into the box and start the command using this syntax: [user@remoteboxen user]$ nohup /path/to/command arguments & The man page [...]
