Newbie to this forum... I was working on something lately and encountered a problem. First i logged on to a remote system using "ssh -l hostname" then i killed all processes with pid = trace using "killall -9 trace", then after performing some work i tried to reinvoke this process in the background using '&' and typed "exit" but system hangs. I understood SSH wasnt able to detach from the running process so it wasnt able to exit (it was a deadlock) is there anyway to over come this situation!?
PS: I am using Busy box ie cannot use nohup or anyother special functions... help me out!
Try using nohup, which allows a background job to keep running even though the controlling terminal (your login session) has gone away.