Basically , i ran a script on my droplet / virtual server. It ran well , i use digital ocean console. The next day i connected using the mac terminal, added SSH key, and bash ./thescript from the terminal, the script runs well, without stopping i went to digital ocean console terminal and open it up the script is not running.
I thought to myself maybe when i close the terminal on my mac it wont ran.
So i ran the script FIRST on DIGITAL OCEAN console.
Then connect to the droplet on my TERMINAL MAC local device. Script does not have the output.
Thank you for your time.
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Hello,
If you need the script to run constantly even if you close your SSH session, I would recommend using screen.
To start a new screen session run:
screen -S SOME_NAME_HERE
Then inside the screen session run your script. After that to detach from the screen session press CTRL+A+D.
Then even if you close your terminal the script would remain running in the screen session.
If you need to attach back to the screen session run:
screen -R SOME_NAME_HERE
To list the available screen sessions run:
screen -ls
Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby
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