You can choose not to show us your script and we can make lots of wild assumptions. Or, you could show us your complete script with proprietary information redacted. Instead you have shown us two other scripts. All I can do at this point is comment on the script you provided in post #3 in this thread (shown here with trailing spaces replaced by <space>:

Code:

#! /bin/bash  

ssh -t -t $tar_host & <<EOF<space><space>
sleep 2<space>
echo "On host03"<space>
EOF<space><space>
echo "worked?"<space>
exit 0

Comments:If what you are trying to do is to run ssh on host03 feeding it two commands in a here-document, you might want something more like:

Code:

#! /bin/bash  
tar_host="host03"
{  ssh -t -t $tar_host <<EOF
   sleep 2
   echo "On host03"
EOF
}&
echo "worked?"<space>
exit 0