Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Greg Norris wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I occasionally log into a machine remotely and start a process in the > > background: > > > > command & > > > > However, when I log out of the machine, the ssh process on my local > > machine blocks. > > This is often caused because the process

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-02 Thread Greg Norris
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:17:33PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > OK. I should have been more precise in my explanation then. I am > redirecting like this: > > command >log.txt 2>&1 & > > Is that causing it then? Possibly. Try redirecting stdin to /dev/null as well... that frequently tak

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Chen Wei
Yes, screen is a good choice. - Original Message - From: "Paul Stolp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 6:20 AM Subject: Re: Starting background process in ssh session >* Roberto C

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:09:54PM -0500, Greg Norris wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:33:28PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I occasionally log into a machine remotely and start a process in the > > background: > > > > command & > > > > However, when I log out of the machine, the ssh pr

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Greg Norris
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:33:28PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I occasionally log into a machine remotely and start a process in the > background: > > command & > > However, when I log out of the machine, the ssh process on my local > machine blocks. I guess that it is becuase the remote

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 12:18:50AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:10:19PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >>Do you want to use `at' ? > >That seems a bit kludgy. I suppose I could always do `at now + 1 min` > >or something like that. > >-R

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:10:19PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Do you want to use `at' ? That seems a bit kludgy. I suppose I could always do `at now + 1 min` or something like that. -Roberto at -f

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:10:19PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Do you want to use `at' ? > That seems a bit kludgy. I suppose I could always do `at now + 1 min` or something like that. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto pgpTv4cQaT113.pgp Description: PGP sign

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 03:38:35PM -0700, David Kirchner wrote: > On 9/1/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, when I log out of the machine, the ssh process on my local > > machine blocks. I guess that it is becuase the remote still has jobs > > running. Is there a way t

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 12:20:10AM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > > On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:44:46 EDT, "Roberto C. Sanchez" writes: > >> If you don't care as much about your ssh session as the command running > >> on, `man nohup`. > > >That wasn't it. I still had to kill the ssh process on my l

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread David Kirchner
On 9/1/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, when I log out of the machine, the ssh process on my local > machine blocks. I guess that it is becuase the remote still has jobs > running. Is there a way to get it start the process in the background > and then detach from the

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Paul Stolp
* Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-01 16:45]: > Is there a way to get it start the process in the background > and then detach from the shell? I use "screen" for these sorts of things -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Do you want to use `at' ? Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 02:52:18PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could do this: nohup $command But I always usea trick I find works with bash, so when your in a bash shell do this: #start another bash shell bash #start your backgrou

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:44:46 EDT, "Roberto C. Sanchez" writes: >> If you don't care as much about your ssh session as the command running >> on, `man nohup`. >That wasn't it. I still had to kill the ssh process on my local >machine after starting the remote process. Of course that wasn't it.

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 02:52:18PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You could do this: > nohup $command > > But I always usea trick I find works with bash, so when your in a > bash shell do this: > > #start another bash shell > bash > #start your background job > command & > #exit the subshell

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread dking
You could do this: nohup $command But I always usea trick I find works with bash, so when your in a bash shell do this: #start another bash shell bash #start your background job command & #exit the subshell exit #exit your ssh connection exit That should work. - D On 1 Sep 2005 at 17:33, Robe

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:38:50PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > > On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:33:28 EDT, "Roberto C. Sanchez" writes: > >command & > > > >However, when I log out of the machine, the ssh process on my local > >machine blocks. > > If you don't care as much about your ssh session as the

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:33:28 EDT, "Roberto C. Sanchez" writes: >command & > >However, when I log out of the machine, the ssh process on my local >machine blocks. If you don't care as much about your ssh session as the command running on, `man nohup`. cheers, &rw -- -- "Having a firewall that

Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
I occasionally log into a machine remotely and start a process in the background: command & However, when I log out of the machine, the ssh process on my local machine blocks. I guess that it is becuase the remote still has jobs running. Is there a way to get it start the process in the backgro