SSH and Local Applications

[Laslo7]

Say I want to start an application from SSH and want it to run after I close the connection. How would I go about doing that? Also is it possible to take control of said application on the local machine? Or to resume the program next time I SSH over.

[Craig McPherson]

If you run a program with "open", like this:

open sleep 500

the "sleep 500" program will detatch itself from your console. Since it's no longer a child of your shell, it won't close when your shell does.

I'm not sure about how to take it back over: check the open manpage, it probably has something.

[Urko]

You may want to check out a program called screen it let's you detach sessions and logoff and then reattach them when you log back in

[ph34r]

Yah, use screen. Its way cool. Allows multiple virtual terms that keep going after you logout of ssh/telnet/local.

[Strike]

nohup <program>

would also work. I believe