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@@ -21,3 +21,14 @@ any arbitrary commands to do things such as reverse tunneling down into the
 
 * `-p` or `--plain` - This does an SSH without authentication, leaving
   authentication up to the user.
+
+## Background Execution
+
+If the command you specify runs in the background (such as appending a `&` to
+a shell command), it will be terminated almost immediately. This is because
+when Vagrant executes the command, it executes it within the context of a
+shell, and when the shell exits, all of the child processes also exit.
+
+To avoid this, you'll need to detach the process from the shell. Please
+Google to learn how to do this for your shell. One method of doing this is
+the `nohup` command.