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nkw

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Registered: 2004-03-26

Posts: 80

remote run a program and quit

Besides VNC, any other way to keep running a program on a remote Linux without keep a login? And late user can login to check the status of the running program?

dpb

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From: Cyperspace?

Registered: 2004-04-11

Posts: 231

Re: remote run a program and quit

Well, depends what kind of programs you want to run. Some console programs can be run in the background. For console programs that can't be run in the background, there's Screen. (Some basic info about screen can be found in a link from this thread.) If you mean GUI programs, AFAIK VNC is the only one.

farphel

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From: New Hampshire - USA

Registered: 2003-09-18

Posts: 250

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Re: remote run a program and quit

You can fork and background an ssh process that executes a remote command.

ssh -f -n user@remotehost remotecommand

That keeps the remotecommand running on the remote host even if your ssh process dies (at least it seems to).

HTH,
farphel

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Xentac

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From: Victoria, BC

Registered: 2003-01-17

Posts: 1,797

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Re: remote run a program and quit

If you ever want to see the output of the program again (sounds like I'm a kidnapper...), check out screen.

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dpb

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From: Cyperspace?

Registered: 2004-04-11

Posts: 231

Re: remote run a program and quit

(sounds like I'm a kidnapper...)

LMFAO