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 >> 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 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.

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