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Move a long running job to background

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May 082010
 

Move a long running job to background

Answer:

Assume you have a job running for a very long time, and you might want it to run in background, even you have logged out from the SSH session.

1. Suspend it

# [Ctrl-Z]

2. Make it run in background

# bg && disown

You can now safely logout from the SSH session.

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