logging out leaving a command running

[Noah Dain]

On 1/23/06, Byron Poland <wpoland at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm on the road for work.  I have a mythtv box set up at home
> recording HD content.  I can ssh into my network, and execute a script
> on my ubuntu workstation that transcodes shows I chose.  I have to
> stay logged in for the script to continue.
>
>  I want to beable to log in real quick start the command log out with
> the confidence that the script will continue.
> Any suggestions?
>
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screen is the way to go.  login, run screen, run your job(s),
disconnect from the screen session, logout.

later you can login again and reattach to screen sessions.


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Noah Dain
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