You might be seeingmhahn said there was a bug in Yocto sshd killing all current cgroup processes when leaving ssh which has an easy fix (just didn't make it to the nohup thingEdison build yet): poky - Poky Build Tool and Metadata i. Check page 2 of the link below for the "Correct Answer"e. in short:
echo "KillMode=process" >> /lib/systemd/system/[email protected] https://communities.intel.com/thread/57402?start=15&tstart=0