2013/9/26 Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson <hinrik....@gmail.com> > The "&&" operator in bash seems to inhibit backgrounding when run over > ssh. You can try it with the following: > > ssh localhost "cd /tmp && nohup sleep 10 >/dev/null 2>&1 &" > > The above command will wait for sleep(1) to finish before returning. > If it is run without ssh, it returns immediately. Furthermore, other > shells such as dash and zsh will return immediately regardless of > whether ssh is used. >
Probably because it's equivalent to { cd /tmp && nohup sleep 10 >/dev/null 2>&1; } & so the backgrounded process still have stdout and stderr connected to ssh. This should do what you want: cd /tmp && { nohup sleep 10 >/dev/null 2>&2 & } -- Geir Hauge