The option of ssh to check on miners? a link at least i had no luck.
This was posted by someone else...edited for clarity:
How to use screen:
screen -S ScreenName #starts a new screen session
"ScreenName" can be anything, it's just a name that you can use later to get back to it. This will give you a new shell. Start cgminer there.
Ctrl-A, then Ctrl-D will exit the new shell and will keep cgminer running.
You can now disconnect/exit SSH etc.
To get back to your cgminer:
screen -r ScreenName
To verify that it's indeed running in the background use this:
ps auxwww | grep cgminer
I have noticed that after you exit cgminer the screen session occasionally does not display new commands. I usually just exit and start a new screen session.