run wget background....

chamila1986 · 02-01-2010, 06:26 AM

I connect to my remote server machine using my laptop. I connect to that server using 'ssl' and put downloads using wget. Is there a way in 'wget' that enable running 'wget' at background level.

For example I put my download in my server by connecting to that using my laptop. Download may takes 10 hours. I needs a way that when I shout down my laptop or close my laptop wget console window it should not effect to the server side download which is launched via my laptop. Any idea please....

neonsignal · 02-01-2010, 07:49 AM

You can use nohup to prevent a job from being killed when the shell that spawned it exits, eg:

Code:

nohup wget ... &

(the ampersand puts it in the background, the output is directed to nohup.out).

You can also use disown to disown a process that is already running (again, so that the shell exit does not kill the child process).

A more versatile way is to use screen to create terminal sessions that can be disconnected and reconnected.

addynix · 02-01-2010, 08:22 AM

Initially, I used 'nohup' to start my virtualbox machines on a headless server, only later to find out that screen is much more reliable and a general solution. If there is anything to be carried for a long time over the network on a remote machine, the screen command is a good habit.

I hope the others can learn this early.

smoker · 02-14-2010, 01:28 PM

try reading man wget
wget -b runs in the background and writes any messages to a file wget-log