Quit running screen on Linux

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I know you can do Control+C to force quit it, but say I am running a program on the screen such as a Minecraft server... how do I leave the screen while in SSH without shutting off the screen/server?

Is there a shortcut?

I doubt I can type any commands, since the Minecraft program is a console.

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 14 '12 at 14:35

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You could run the process in screen or byobu and detach the screen session - ctrl ad in screen or f6 in byobu

answered Feb 14 '12 at 14:35

Journeyman Geek

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That was it! Thank you. - CentOS 6 (64 Bit) – Gray Adams Feb 14 '12 at 14:44

Eduardo Ivanec · Answer 2 · 2012-02-14T14:39:27.810

nohup or screen are the way to go if you haven't started the process yet - the earlier captures the output for you in a file, while the latter is more complex and allows you to resume control of the process in a latter connection (learning GNU Screen is really worth it). If you are already running it and you don't want to quit and restart it, though, you can do the following:

Suspend the process with ctrl-Z
Resume it in the background with bg.
Disown it (detach it from the current shell) with disown %1

Now the process isn't related to your TTY anymore and you can safely disconnect from the server.

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 14 '12 at 14:30

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You want to nohup the server and run it in the background. nohup minecraftserver &

Nohup keeps the system from killing the process when you log out of your shell and the & at the end runs it in the background.

answered Feb 14 '12 at 14:30

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Quit running screen on Linux

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