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hi all,

I am hosting prefect cloud on an ubuntu ec2 instance.

is it possible to run `prefect agent` in the background? and redirect standard error and output to a log file? something like nohup &gt;&gt; logs

Hello Wei, to run the Prefect agent in the background on an Ubuntu EC2 instance, I believe you can use a systemd service. Here's a brief overview of the process:

1. Install Prefect (if you haven't already): `pip install prefect`
2. Set up Prefect to connect to the server or Prefect Cloud by following the appropriate instructions in <https://discourse.prefect.io/t/how-to-run-a-prefect-2-worker-as-a-systemd-service-on-linux/1450|this guide>.
3. Create a systemd service file for the Prefect agent, and set the `ExecStart` directive to point to the Prefect agent command, like this:
```ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/prefect agent start -q YOUR_WORK_QUEUE_NAME```
   If you're using a virtual environment, you'll need to adjust the `ExecStart` path to point to the `prefect` executable within your virtual environment's `bin` subdirectory.

As far as streaming logs to a file, I think <https://discourse.prefect.io/t/how-to-stream-prefect-logs-to-a-file/1963|this article> may help you get there.

omg really thanks a lot. let me read through all these and let you know if i have any problems