Subject: Re: UNIX / Telnet Question - Keeping a process running
From: James Bagley Jr. (james@thelostnet.net)
Date: Thu Jan 24 2002 - 22:02:46 AKST
How to run a command in unix in the background unattached to your
terminal:
nohup command &
You can now exit from your telnet/ssh session and the command will
continue to run. Since this is, specifically, an ftp process i like to
use lftp as it does this automagically.
$ lftp ftp.cdrom.com
> cd /pub
> get file
^Z
> quit
[7217] Moving to background to complete transfers...
now the only way for lftp to die is if you kill it or if the download
finnishes. It is quite the persistent little program too (reconnects and
continues after a disconnect, etc...).
Cheers!
-james
On 24 Jan 2002, Mac Mason wrote:
>
> This is a general UNIX question,so all you sysadmins out there help me
> out.
>
> I want to download a CD-image (Mandrake 8.1) for a friend, then burn it
> to CD. However, my desktop box is so loud that I can't sleep with it on.
> Therefore, I want to do the download with my fileserver, (which is
> quiet) then NFS it over to my desktop for the burn.
> Painfully easy, yes?
>
> Well, the fileserver runs headless, and I talk to it with SSH.
> I ssh in, fire up ftp, start the download, then go to turn the desktop
> off.
> Of course, I realize, that's going to end my ssh session and stop the
> download.
>
> How do I keep this process running without leaving the desktop on?
>
> Thanks!
>
> ~Mac~
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-- Don't panic.
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