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Old 03-14-2006
Question leave a process running in a remote machine

Hi,

I would like to run a process in my gentoo machine from a consolte (putty) in
Windows and would like that this process keep on going when I close the console in Windows (i.e closing this session).
The process should take a long time and I do not want to leave the Windows machine running just for the sake of it.

Thanks,
pbasil
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Old 03-14-2006
man nohup

Cheers
ZB
# 3  
Old 03-14-2006
The nohup command will let you run the program even if you leave the session:

Code:
nohup your_prog &

You could also put a crontab entry.
# 4  
Old 03-15-2006
Another option is to emerge the "screen" package.

I use it often.

ssh into your host:

#screen bash
#yourcommand.sh &
#screen -d
#exit
#exit

And it will continue to run.

Run:
#screen -r

-d detach -r will reattach I suppose.
 
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