On the command line if you close a console with a running job, you kill the job. This is different with the tool ’screen’, where you can attach and detach from a ’screen’ without terminating it. You can even start a job in a screen on another machine, detatch, travel somewhere else and re-attach to it on another machine.

If you do not have screen yet, install it on your Debian box with: apt-get install screen

Commands:

• screen -S indexing - Create a screen with name ‘indexing’.
• screen -ls - Show available screens.
• screen -r indexing - Re-attach to the screen ‘indexing’.
• Strg-A, Strg-D - Detatch from a current screen (without terminating it).
• exit OR Strg-D - Exit from a current screen. This terminates the screen session.