Kill nohup process

Every command in Linux starts a process at the time of its execution, which automatically gets terminated upon exiting the terminal.

Nohup vs

Nohup

Nohup command in linux to run in background

How to use nohup

Nohup example 2>&1

Suppose, you are executing programs over SSH and if the connection drops, the session will be terminated, all the executed processes will stop, and you may face a huge accidental crisis. In such cases, running commands in the background can be very helpful to the user and this is where nohup command comes into the picture.

nohup (No Hang Up) is a command in Linux systems that runs the process even after logging out from the shell/terminal.

Nohup Command

Usually, every process in Linux systems is sent a SIGHUP (Signal Hang UP) which is responsible for terminating the process after closing/exiting the terminal.

How to check nohup process in linux

Nohup command prevents the process from receiving this signal upon closing or exiting the terminal/shell. Once a job is started or executed using the nohup command, stdin will not be available to the user and nohup.out file is used as the default file for stdout and stderr.

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