Debian continiu running server (When putty shutdown)

[ColdDoT]

Hello i've got a problem

when i start a server prog of my server whith this command

$./ServerProg.sh

then it wil start a server that wil output a lot of text back to the console

but i want tu shutdown putty and i want that the server will continu to run but when i shutdown my putty the server stops

is there any way to change this(whith setting or other progs)

greets kevin

[falko]

Try this:

./ServerProg.sh &> /dev/null &

[ColdDoT]

Thx thats it :D thx a lot
but how can i stop that prog then ?

@off-topic
i like to give some color to my init.d startup files like suse
when i start a init.d script in suse you get
Starting mysql done

in debian you get
Starting mysql

is there some code for or a app

[falko]

Thx thats it :D thx a lot
but how can i stop that prog then ?

Run ps aux and search for the process ID. Then run
kill -9 <process_id> to kill it.

[ColdDoT]

Ye men you rules

[till]

Hi Kevin,

here is another useful small program, not for running daemons but for other admin tasks that shall be continued after you closed putty.

If you want to run a script or program, shutdown putty and continue the session later witout stopping the script, you shall have a look at the "screen" program.

Installation on Debian / ubuntu:

apt-get install screen

To start screen, run the command:

screen

Now you are in a type of virtual console, start your script now. For example the "top" command:

top

To close the session, press [ctrl] + a + d

Now you are again on your "normal" putty console. It seems as top is not running.

To connect back to your virtual screen console, run this command:

screen -r

Now you see that top is still running on your server.

Press "q" to stop the top program and then press [ctrl] + a + d to close the screen. If there is no program running in the screen virtual console, it closes completely and cannot be reopened with screen -r again.

For more screen commands, see:

man screen