I've got a question.. if I login to my computer from ssh and run a program like azureus even if I run it with "azureus &" to detach it from the shell, when I close the connection the program closes....
How can I do it to run persistently a service from remote????

thank you...

nohup is your friend in this case.

Wells is right. nohup is the answer.

But let me introduce you a program named "screen".
It is great to keep a session open so you can close the connection and re-connect later and re-open that session.

After you get into the remote system run the program "screen". A new shell will be opened. Run your program now. Let say it is a program like badblocks that take forever to finish and shows in the console the progress.
Then type CTRL-A, D to detach from the screen. Close your connection to the remote shell.
At any time, you can connect to the remote host, and this time, type "screen -r" to re-attach to the existing session. You get the badblocks running and any output on terminal.

It is a obscure but great program that deserves more visibility.

cheers,

screen is great! I even created an admin account which makes 'screen' the default shell. (You gurus out there tell me whether this is a good or bad idea, please!) But it's nice to simply log in with my admin username and be looking at a prompt which is already running screen. Then if I close the connection (or it gets dropped due to connectivity problems) I just log in again and see exactly what I was looking at before. A real lifesaver!

Krasl