Remote execution of a program

[Joseph Loo]

Keith Clark wrote:
>>> 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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> Joseph,
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> A VNC session?  Don't I need to be running a gui session on the remote
> for that to work?
>
> Keith
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You need to run a gui, but you can also run with a standard X11 session.
I believe you mentioned that you wanted to have a GUI program running.
The only way I know is to start it on the remote server and interface it
with a VNC session. If you drop your connection, the session will still
be running and you can reattach to it anytime you want. I was doing that
when I wanted to have a low end machine run a bit torrent client that
will take weeks to complete. I would use the VNC to start it and look at
its progress. Once I did that I could log off my local machine or turn
it off but the remote process would still be running.

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Joseph Loo
jloo at acm.org