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Ok here's a quick question. I have a debian server with sass (driven by ruby) installed. To compile a sass file to a css file, yo do:

sass --watch style.scss:style.css

If I run this on my server through a terminal. Is that process still running when I close the terminal? If not, how do I keep it running? And how do I stop it if I want to?

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If you want a process to be running even when you disconnect from a server, use nohup.

nohup sass --watch style.scss:style.css &

The & will start the job in the background. nohup makes sure that even when you log out, the process continues. Every output will be logged to nohup.out.

You can also have several output files for stdout and stderr:

nohup --watch style.scss:style.css > main.log 2> err.log &
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Wow! Thank you! How can I stop the process? – tbleckert Jun 23 '11 at 10:17
I guess you would have to run ps aux | grep nohup | grep -v grep and then run kill PID where PID is the number in the second column. Haven't found a better way to do that yet. – slhck Jun 23 '11 at 10:20
Oh ok thank you :) – tbleckert Jun 23 '11 at 10:21
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