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Shutting down PC without killing SSH sessions

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Mar 15, 202615678 views
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I have some heavy, long processes running on remote Linux machines. I use my laptop to SSH to these machine and run the processes from my couch. BUT, when I want to shutdown my laptop, I am in trouble since the remote processes are killed. I did my research and found out that "screen" is a great so…

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Fix for: Shutting down PC without killing SSH sessions

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It sounds like you are running the screen session on your laptop. Then sshing from that screen session to the remote host(s). Shutting down the laptop will kill the local screen process, which in turn kills the ssh session. What you want to do is ss…

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