Free program from terminal via ssh

[john1923]

I am running a program on a "supercomputer" in my department via ssh.

The program is currently giving a progress output to my terminal.

I want to close my terminal, and log off, without stopping the program on the remote computer.

I have tried typing & and pressing enter but that didn't do anything.

I'm tempted to just close the terminal, but the program has been running for 2 days (I gave it a lot of data to crunch) and I don't want to lose these last 2 days of work.

I apologize for the very dumb question.

Thankyou

[john1923]

If it helps, my terminal runs BASH and the remote machine uses TCSH

[Old_Grey_Wolf]

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[peculiar penguin]

You may or may not be able to background (Ctrl-Z, then enter "bg") and detach the process ("disown -h %[jobid]" when using bash, you'll have to look up the tcsh job control syntax). In the future just use screen for tasks like this.

[nothingspecial]

Use screen in future

start screen then your program then press Ctrl-A D to detach it.

then you can log out and leave it running

next time you log on type

screen -r

You can send a job to the background but if you logout it will kill it.

You might be able to somehow save the process to a file then resume it inside screen but I wouldn't know how.