[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Why does remote command over ssh not return control?

[Jerome Haltom]

Or `disown`.

On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 13:52 -0500, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> Dennis Daupert wrote:
> > Jerome Haltom said:
> > 
> >> If the script spawns a background process without disowning it, 
> >> that would do it.
> > 
> > This must be the critter that's doing what you suggest, I think:
> > 
> > start_task()
> > {
> >     echo "Starting $2"
> >     eval "nohup $1 &"
> > }
> > 
> > Is there a command or flag I can add in there to disengage?
> 
> The ssh man page says:
> 
> "The session terminates when the command or shell on the remote machine 
> exits and all X11 and TCP connections have been closed."
> 
> The only way I know to detach a process so ssh will close is to use 
> "screen -d -m $1" (no eval and no ampersand).  This will detach the 
> process from ssh and allow ssh to close.
> 
> ...Ken
> 
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