What if you have a program that you’d like to run in the background remotely after you’ve exited from your terminal/shell prompt?

Use the nohup command!

Run:
nohup some-command &

Maybe you have a python script called server_receive.py, you should run nohup python server_receive.py &. The “&” symbol is required so that the process will enter the background.

You can later terminate it by running ps aux to obtain the process id, and calling kill -9 1234, if the process id is 1234.