You need to save the PID of the background process at the time you start it: foo & FOO_PID=$! # do other stuff kill $FOO_PID You cannot use job control, since that is an interactive feature and tied to a controlling terminal. A script will not necessarily have a terminal attached at all so job … Read more
nohup node server.js > /dev/null 2>&1 & nohup means: Do not terminate this process even when the stty is cut off. > /dev/null means: stdout goes to /dev/null (which is a dummy device that does not record any output). 2>&1 means: stderr also goes to the stdout (which is already redirected to /dev/null). You may … Read more
The MongoDB daemon (mongod) has a command-line option to run the server in the background… –fork This command-line option requires that you also specify a file to log messages to (since it can not use the current console). An example of this command looks like: mongod –fork –logpath /var/log/mongod.log You could put this into an … Read more