SSH help, concerning sessions

frokid879 · 11-09-2005, 06:10 PM

I have a linux box in my closet which i control by ssh. I would like it to run a process for me, so i put "# process &" to make it run in the background. However, when i close putty (on my desktop machine) it ends the session including my process, even though it is running in the background. How can i close putty (ending my session) but keep my process going?

chrism01 · 11-09-2005, 07:03 PM

you need nohup ... ie

nohup yourprog &

frokid879 · 11-09-2005, 07:59 PM

can i use it w/o the & and not run it in the background but have it always on when i make a new session?

chrism01 · 11-09-2005, 09:37 PM

nohup disconnects it from the session (which is why it persists when you logoff).
There's no (easy) way to re-connect that I know offhand.. maybe someone else does.
What exactly are you trying to do here?
If you don't use '&' it would tie up the session/cmd line if you could re-connect to it anyway...
Frankly, I'd use my suggestion as before, but make it write to a logfile regularly if you want to monitor it's progress.

apepost · 11-11-2005, 11:22 AM

As soon as you connect the first time, Type "screen".
When your done, just disconnect the way you normally do.
Then, when you want to come back and look at your session, Type "screen -d -RR .

When you want to end the session forever, type exit.

I just found about about screen, but I now use it regularly to download bittorrents with my server.