Quoting Jonathan Stickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I know that if I start a terminal window in X, run a program, and then > > manually close the window, the program dies. I also know that if I > secure-shell into another machine and run a program, I cannot exit > without first ending that program. > > Is there any way to start a program for a shell window and leave it > running when I close the window? Also, is there anyway to leave a > program running remotely, started through an ssh session, and exit > ssh?
$ nohup sleep 10000 & $ exit <login again> $ ps -auxww | grep -v grep | grep sleep timriley 1418 0.0 0.1 1292 372 ? SN 08:56 0:00 sleep 10000 The '&' puts it in the background, and the 'nohup' tells the shell to keep it running if you log out. > > The later would be very helpful, although I suspect these two issues are > > related. My research involves running computer simulations on several > > computers on campus. I would really like to ssh into the machines from > > home, start the simulations (which generate output to text files), and > > then exit the ssh sessions with the simulations in progress. This way I > > could close my internet connection (dial-up :( ) and turn my home > computer off while the multi-day simulations run. > > Is this possible? > > Jonathan > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
