How to run Solr Jetty in background

Question

I am using the Jetty/Solr build that comes with Solr and would like to run it in the background instead of in the terminal.

Right now I start it by java -jar start.jar but I would like it to log to a file and run in the background on the server so that I can close the terminal window.

I'm sure there is some java config that I can't find.

I have tried java -jar start.jar > log.txt & but no luck still outputs to the terminal window.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Try something like:

nohup yourcommand > output.log 2>&1 &

nohup will prevent yourcommand from being terminated in the event you log out.

& will run it in the background.

> output.log will send stdout to output.log

2>&1 will redirect stderr to stdout