hey guys im wondering is it possible to run for instance pan remotely via ssh and make that instance of pan running on server, regardless upon closing it via ssh?

for example i would love to do: start pan instance via ssh on the server keep it open while downloading close the ssh session, keep the pan running on the server in background. open ssh session and access the same instance of pan running on the server etc something in that loop.

im unable to do that because when i close pan ssh remotely the instance automatically terminates on the server.

so im wondering if theres any workaround for this?

thanks alot

It sounds like you're looking for something like screen (check the man pages). You can login using ssh, run screen to start a session. The next time you connect via ssh you can use "screen -r" to resume that session.

You might want to check out the screen command. Visit the two links below for an explaination and usage.

http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/56443

http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials...th-gnu-screen-

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ive tried screen in this way:

then
this opens pan instance on my computer remotely then ive tried ctrl+a+d to detach it, and it says detached, then i closed the instance which popped up on my screen locally when i started the instance via ssh and instance instantly terminates on the server when i do screen -r

i want that when i close the instance locally that it still will run on the server and when i do screen -r that i still will be able to access running instance and get that same instance again on my screen locally.

is that possible via screen? if so im wondering what i have done wrong?

Try not running pan in background mode.

Run the following
cntrl - a - d :to detach
Close out ssh connection. Then verify come back in, use screen -ls to show screen sessions that are available. If there's only one, then use screen -R to open it. pan should be running.

it dosent want to close ssh session untill i close pan window locally first

so: pan is an X application? In that case you may want to check into some remote desktop stuff like VNC or noFX. With that you can create remote desktops and connect to them again. Security and performance wise I'd suggest looking into nofx, although it's a bit harder to setup than vnc.

Look at the output from
No man page unfortunately. You may want to specify your options on the command-line and use --no-gui.

thanks guys! Even vnc or xmove would suffice for X apps.