Remote execution of a program

Joseph Loo joseph.loo at dslextreme.com
Sat Sep 12 05:00:38 UTC 2009


Steve Reilly wrote:
> Keith Clark wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 00:29 -0400, Steve Reilly wrote:
>>     
>>> Jay Daniels wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> nohup?  I think that just keeps the process running after you logout,
>>>>         
>>> i thought thats what he said the way i read the post?
>>>
>>>       
>>>> but if the gui is running remotely?  It didn't sound like that was what
>>>> he wanted to do.  Sounded like he wanted the program to run or popup on
>>>> the server side screen.
>>>>         
>>> if thats all he wanted to do he could use ssh -Y or ssh -X to have the
>>> gui sent to him.  but he wanted to have it continue after he logged out.
>>>  when you logout, that would kill the process
>>>
>>>       
>> Steve,
>>
>> Exactly.  I want to start Transmission remotely and leave it running
>> when I log out.  This may not be possible.
>>
>> Keith
>>
>>
>>
>>     
>
> yeah ive never done anything like that before,  take a look here, theres
> some command line bittorrent clients and a bunch of info here looks like
> it may work
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BitTorrent
>
>
>   
Have you tried an vnc session?

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