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 still has a file

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 21 Is that causing it then? Possibly. Try redirecting stdin to /dev/null as well... that frequently takes care

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

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 allows

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 command

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,

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 exit

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. The

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

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? Contact

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 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 local

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 to get it

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

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 SCRIPT now see `man at' for further informations I do

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. -Roberto at

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 still

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 process on my

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: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 6:20 AM Subject: Re: Starting background process in ssh session * Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL