Question

I have a two scripts in the Rails environment which have to run 24/7. I’m working on a remote server, so I need to start the scripts using ssh, which means I need to keep the ssh windows open all the time.

I’m searching for a simple way to run these scripts in the background so they aren’t canceled as soon as I close the ssh connection.

I don’t want to use screen. I think there must be simpler way to handle this. Isn’t there?

Answer 1

I think the most basic solution would be nohup:

nohup myscript &> /dev/null &