It seems like nohup has solved this issue, even when the putty window becomes inactive the processes are still running (I din't need to interact with them). I might look into using screen or tmux as a long term solution.
Thanks Terry and Mike! Best, Su On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Terry Bates <terryjba...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > nohup does the trick, as Mr. Bridge has shared. If you seem to want to run > these and still have some "interactivity" with > the services, consider using "screen" or "tmux" as these will enable you to > run these programs in foreground, have added > windows you can use to access shell, tail logs, and so on, and enable you > to disconnect from the session, but still have > these sessions available for re-attachment. > > In addition, I using "runit" for service supervision may enable you to keep > daemons running, but if your services are dying > you may need to introspect more deeply on the root cause versus working > around it by restarting them. > > > *Terry Bates* > > *Email: *terryjba...@gmail.com > *Phone: (*412) 215-0881 > *Skype*: terryjbates > *GitHub*: https://github.com/terryjbates > *Linkedin*: http://www.linkedin.com/in/terryjbates/ > > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Mike Bridge <m...@bridgecanada.com> wrote: > >> Have you tried using "nohup" >> >> nohup bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh config/zookeeper.properties & >> nohup bin/kafka-server-start.sh config/server.properties & >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Su She <suhsheka...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Hello Everyone, >> > >> > I'm wondering how to keep Zookeeper and Kafka Server up even when my >> > SSH (using putty) becomes inactive. I've tried running it in the >> > background (using &), but it seems like it stops sometimes after a >> > couple hours or so and I'll have to restart zookeeper and/or the kafka >> > server. >> > >> > The only remediation i've found is to export TMOUT=[big number], but >> > there must be another solution. >> > >> > Thank you! >> > >> > Best, >> > >> > Su >> > >>