How to move SimpleSocket server into a background process

Question

I have a simple socketServer that works perfectly on the main thread.

#Server PORT
PORT = 8020
#reassign variables
Handler = Server #this is a S         


        

Answer 1

Assuming you are running your script on a POSIX operating system and your script is named socket_server.py, you can use nohup like this:

$ nohup python socket_server.py >> /dev/null 2>&1 &

That will put your script in the background, make it immune to hangups, and you can exit your SSH session. The shell will print out the job number and PID:

$ [1] 1234

You can stop it later by getting sending a SIGTERM using kill:

$ kill -SIGTERM 1234