Unable to run nohup command from jenkins as a background process

Question

UPDATE: Based on below discussion I have edited my answer for more accurate description.

I am trying to run a nohup command from jenkins. The full command is

Answer 1

Got the same problem, added:

BUILD_ID=dontKillMe python /var/lib/jenkins/release.py

into Execute Shell -> Command and inside release.py there is:

os.system('nohup java -jar ' + new_jars_on_server + '/' + generated_jar_by_mvn_name + '&')

and it works