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Asked: 2026-06-16T01:35:05+00:00

I have an Linux instance running on EC2 which I I ran some server

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I have an Linux instance running on EC2 which I I ran some server on (some server I wrote). I ran it as a background job and logged out of SSH.

When logging back in, I cannot find the job when typing ‘jobs’. The only way to terminate it is to find the PID of the process that the port is running under by using: lsof -i :port and then killing it: kill -9 PID.

Is there anyway where I can actually SSH back in and find it running under jobs? Why is the process disappearing when changing sessions?

I always use GNU Screen, and when using Screen the process still shows up. I’m just wondering why it ‘disappears’ when not running screen.

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  1. Editorial Team

    jobs only applies to the shell that started the job.

    You should look into screen or tmux (or byobu as wrapper for both).

    They allow you to start a shell session which can be detached when you log out and reattached when you come back…

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