Run Java program as background process

[Alan_D.]

Hello everyone,

I've got a pretty special question today. I have a regular Java application that I want to run on a linux-based server. The program is started via command-line-only SSH, which works well.

The problem is, however, that I need the program to keep running, even if there is no user logged into the system. How would you do that on command line? Any hints? I tried to find answers on Google but it's pretty hard to search for something when you do not really have a significant term for it.


Thank you,


Alan

[SlugSlug]

there is a few ways

best is probably set it up as a service and have it run at boot google update-rc.d

otherwise you could run it with screen or nohup

nohup /path/to/script

screen /plath/to/script

screen -r

to recall it

[Alan_D.]

@SlugSlug Thank you, I'm going to try the "screen" option, looks promising

[SlugSlug]

you could make your script use screen and then run it via init.d so it loads at boot

thats what I use