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How to have Unix process keep running after log off

If you want to run a process on Unix machine and then log out from that machine but keep the process running here’s what you need:

nohup myjob

nohup is a utility that runs `myjob` command but makes it ignore hang up signal that comes when you log off from your console. This means the process will still run after you log off.