SCP question.

[eigen]

Scenario:

I ssh into my box at work.
I start a process through my ssh term.
I close that term window and the process quits.
I know the process quits as I also have another term open and am using ps -A.


Question:

How can I make the process not quit even though quit the term window.


Things to be noted:
The program always runs with a term window open ( even when logged in locally).

I think this involves some X wizardy or maybe just some flag I dont know about?

 

[willstay]

How about you force that process to backgroud with '&' at the end?

 

[Kilrsat]

screen

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: Kilrsat
screen

Exactly 🙂

do a man screen and look at all the options it has. It would be perfect for what you need.

 

[lansalot]

"&" means - "start in the background". It it still attached to the foreground process.

"man nohup"

 

[Nothinman]

screen is essential IMO, but nohup will do the job if you don't want to learn screen.

 

[eigen]

Thanks guys it looks like nohup is working.I assume that is short for no hangup....thats pretty oldskool.

 

[Nothinman]

It's still called nohup because when you quit a shell all that shell's children are sent a hangup (or HUP) signal and the default HUP signal action is to exit.

 

[eigen]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
It's still called nohup because when you quit a shell all that shell's children are sent a hangup (or HUP) signal and the default HUP signal action is to exit.

isnt that what I said😕


NM better not argue with the WIIIIZZZAARRRDDD.

 

[pitupepito2000]

eigen, I would suggest that you look into screen. It's a program that you will find extremely useful 🙂

 

[eigen]

Originally posted by: pitupepito2000
eigen, I would suggest that you look into screen. It's a program that you will find extremely useful 🙂

I looked.Screen's man page in bigger than bash ..... that makes my peepee hurt.

 

[n0cmonkey]

screen is the first thing I usually install on a new system.

The most important things to know in screen:
^a c -Create a new window
^a n -Switch to the Next window
^a d -Detatch session
screen -D -R SCREEN.ID -Attatch to screen session

 

[Nothinman]

I looked.Screen's man page in bigger than bash ..... that makes my peepee hurt.

Get your peepee out of the cdrom drive. The man page is so long because it details every option in the config file, most of them you don't need to mess with.