How to start a program in the background and keep it running

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How can we start a program in the background and keep it running while logged off with ssh?

screen doesn’t work, everything is gone after logging out
“&” by itself or with “disown” doesn’t work
nohup sleep 600& doesn’t work
turning off “huponexit” doesn’t help

any other ideas? Maybe a configuration somewhere?

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Hello,

Excerpts from FusionCatalyst's message of 2012-06-05 06:45:50 +0200:

How can we start a program in the background and keep it running while
logged off with ssh?

screen doesn't work, everything is gone after logging out
"&" by itself or with "disown" doesn't work
nohup sleep 600& doesn't work
turning off "huponexit" doesn't help

any other ideas? Maybe a configuration somewhere?

    I went into the same trouble, and the only solution I found was to
write a mydaemon.service for the package to put in /lib/systemd/system.
You can use another service file as example and you'll find some
tutorials in google.

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Try nohup

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Sorry, I had not read the whole message…

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Incidentally, the screen utility still works normally in Ubuntu (including the recent 12.04 release).

Dan.