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Submitting a job to a server

Hi,

Is it possible to submit a job to a remote server and then shutdown your machine but have the job on the server still running? How do you do that?

Thanks

I used "screen". It worked well for me.

You could also try 'nohup'.

Yes. Many ways to do this.

Some years back someone set this up on one of our servers in its root crontab (crontab -e as the root user lets you add entries):

Code:

00 02 * * 1-6 /usr/bin/ssh remotehost "at -f /root/scripts/dmxstart.sh 03:15" >> /var/log/sync.log 2>&1

The above runs at 2 AM daily (except Sunday) on the first server from cron. The cron job opens an ssh to the remote (second server) and schedules an "at" job to run there at 3:15 AM. After 2 AM on the first server I could shut it down because the "at" job is in the remote hosts queue to be run and doesn't require interaction with the first host.