Processes and SSH

[gfunkmonk]

Is there a way to use ssh to remotly access your machine, then run a command and close the connection and have the command keep running?

[Naan Yaar]

As long as you redirect stdin, stdout and stderr to files or /dev/null and background it, you should be able to do this. E.g.,

[ebichu]

If you want to monitor the output or enter input occasionally, you can use the screen utility if it is installed. This emulates a terminal within your terminal via the magic of pseudo-ttys and a curses library, but the real magic is that you can detach from the emulated terminal, leaving whatever's running running and reattach it later. About the only thing that won't work is your real terminal's scrollback buffer.
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[Valen]

I use the 'nohup' command and background it. I've never tried just reassigning all input and output before but in case what Naan Yaar suggested doesn't work you could give this a try.

(edit: grammar)

[Naan Yaar]

nohup on its own will not reassign stdin. This will cause ssh to wait. You could do:

[Valen]

[Naan Yaar]

Yeah... it redirects stdout and stderr to a file, nices the job, makes it ignores SIGHUPs.