However, there is a better way to run commands in the background than using `nohup`. I was lucky enough that a work mate shared his geek skills with me and I am glad to share mine with others:
If I remember, nohup is a wrapper that catches and ignores SIGHUP signals, which is not what you want if you need your services to shut down smoothly.

The problem people normally try to solve is that the shell kills all its running jobs when closing (sending SIGHUP to all processes). To avoid this, you just have to decouple a running process from the shell. Using bash, there are some (I think) not very well known commands that do a great job: `fg` (get background job to foreground), `bg` (decouple background job), `jobs` (list background jobs) (just to name those I use most).

With terracotta, this would be:

`start-terracotta-command.sh & bg`

Or try `start-terracotta-command.sh & jobs; bg; jobs`

Terracotta goes to the background, won’t close when you close your bash session, and shuts down smoothly when you ask it to using SIGHUP.

See “JOB CONTROL” section in `man bash` for details

Richard