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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting running script in background on remote machine Post 302260287 by hcclnoodles on Thursday 20th of November 2008 05:14:12 AM
Old 11-20-2008
running script in background on remote machine

Hi there

I have a script which is running a remote command on hundreds of boxes, it takes around 5 minutes to return an output from this command and because i am running this all from a central box, it goes off to each box in my for loop sequentially meaning that my script will wait for output before moving to the next machine

so as an example i will use the command `sleep 30`. I tried putting an ambersand into the script to no avail...the output on my central server still sits and waits for each box to sleep for 30 seconds rather than sending the command off to a box, letting that box deal with it and moving onto the next box with no delay

an example

Code:
for hostname in $list
do
/usr/ucb/echo -n  "$hostname - "
ssh $hostname 'sleep 30 &'
done


output ....ZZZZzzzzz Smilie


Code:
myserver1 -                       (waits 30 seconds then..)
myserver2 - 
..
..
..


Is there a way to do this ??
 

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PUSH(8)                                                     BSD System Manager's Manual                                                    PUSH(8)

NAME
push -- fetch mail via POP SYNOPSIS
push [-5 | --krb5] [-v | --verbose] [-f | --fork] [-l | --leave] [--from] [-c | --count] [--headers=headers] [-p port-spec | --port=port-spec] po-box filename DESCRIPTION
push retrieves mail from the post office box po-box, and stores the mail in mbox format in filename. The po-box can have any of the follow- ing formats: 'hostname:username' 'po:hostname:username' 'username@hostname' 'po:username@hostname' 'hostname' 'po:username' If no username is specified, push assumes that it's the same as on the local machine; hostname defaults to the value of the MAILHOST environ- ment variable. Supported options: -5, --krb5 use Kerberos 5 (if compiled with support for Kerberos 5) -f, --fork fork before starting to delete messages -l, --leave don't delete fetched mail --from behave like from. -c, --count first print how many messages and bytes there are. --headers=headers a list of comma-separated headers that should get printed. -p port-spec, --port=port-spec use this port instead of the default 'kpop' or '1109'. The default is to first try Kerberos 5 authentication and then, if that fails, Kerberos 4. ENVIRONMENT
MAILHOST points to the post office, if no other hostname is specified. EXAMPLES
$ push cornfield:roosta ~/.emacs-mail-crash-box tries to fetch mail for the user roosta from the post office at ``cornfield'', and stores the mail in ~/.emacs-mail-crash-box (you are using Gnus, aren't you?) $ push --from -5 havregryn tries to fetch From: lines for current user at post office ``havregryn'' using Kerberos 5. SEE ALSO
from(1), pfrom(1), movemail(8), popper(8) HISTORY
push was written while waiting for movemail to finish getting the mail. HEIMDAL May 31, 1998 HEIMDAL
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