After 3 days of continual operation ( I barely managed 9hrs before ) it seems I have narrowed this down to the saddeningly basic cause of the process being sent the SIGHUP signal when its owner process dies. Using the nohup prefix solves the problem. Thanks for all the help on this everyone! Martin On 19 February 2011 02:18, Anthony <akcentos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 18/02/11 20:49, Michael Gliwinski wrote: >> >> Try adding 'nohup' before 'java'. Closing SSH session closes the shell which >> sends HUP to its children. > I religiously use 'screen' when logging in remotely to do any work. Not > only has saved me from interrupted work the connection breaks, but it is > also saves me from having to remember to use 'nohup' before starting any > Jobs! > > Ciao, > Ak. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos