On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:09:54PM -0500, Greg Norris wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:33:28PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I occasionally log into a machine remotely and start a process in the > > background: > > > > command & > > > > However, when I log out of the machine, the ssh process on my local > > machine blocks. I guess that it is becuase the remote still has jobs > > running. Is there a way to get it start the process in the background > > and then detach from the shell? I have already tried this: > > This is often caused because the process still has a file descriptor (FD) > referencing the tty. Ssh doesn't like to terminate when this occurs, > because there's a chance that the FD could still be required. If this > is the case, then you probably just need to redirect the usual > suspects... stdin, stdout, and/or stderr. Something like: > > $ command </dev/null >&0 2>&0 & > > It may not be necessary to redirect all of them, but that will probably > require some experimentation to determine. You may want to consider > running your command under "nohup" as well, to protect it from the loss > of your session.
OK. I should have been more precise in my explanation then. I am redirecting like this: command >log.txt 2>&1 & Is that causing it then? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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