On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 02:55:36PM -0600, christopher j bottaro wrote: > is there any way i can log into a remote computer via ssh, start a > command, then kill the sshing shell and have the command still be > running on the remote machine?
I do this frequently. Most commonly it is with wget and wget has its own "-b" flag and that puts it in the background, waiting for me to watch its progress as it writes its log file. For a more general answer, but something I use less, use "screen". Obviously "man screen" will tell you more, but to get started quickly: $ screen emacs -nw # can't have an X-window launching for this Do stuff, then edit away to do your stuff, except ctrl-A won't work right. Try ctrl-A followed by ?. That will put you in a help. To get out do ctrl-A ctrl-D. Logout. Login again. $ screen -r And you will be back in your emacs session. Look at the man page to see details of getting everything to work smoothly, like letting you do ctrl-A to get to beginning of line in emacs. Gotta figure that out. I haven't. -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
