How to use nohup to run .jar's without being logged into ssh

[kremington]

Hi,
I am trying to run a minecraft server in the background so I can log out of ssh and just leave it running. I have tried using

nohup java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar craftbukkit.jar nogui &

but it doesn't seem to work. The server still goes offline. When I enter that in, I get this:

$ nohup: ignoring input and appending output to `nohup.out'

How do I fix this?
Thanks

[atreyu]

Have you tried running it in a screen? e.g.:

screen -dm -S mcserver java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar craftbukkit.jar nogui

Edit: Forgot to mention - that launches it in the background, you'd then attach to it with:

screen -r mcserver