Re: Using ssh remote for a nohup process

Hello,
try to redirect your standard output and standard error (like this):

nohup ./foobar arg1 arg2 arg3  2>/dev/null >nohup.out &

It works on linux, and I think that it will work on aix too.

Catalin.

On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 09:58:58AM -0100, Jim Horwath wrote:
> Here is my setup:
> AIX 5.2 ML05 to AIX 5.2 ML05 using openssh 3.7.1
>
> I am trying to use remote command execution from machine A 
> to machine B.  On machine there is a shell script like this
>
> #!/usr/bin/ksh
> cd /dir/bin
> nohup ./foobar arg1 arg2 arg3 &
> echo $! > /dir/dir1/proc.pid
> exit 0
>
> On machine a I am doing
>
> ssh machineb "sudo -u daemon_user /dir/bin/foobar.sh "
>
> The sudo command works without a password, I test it locally 
> on machine b.  If I run the remote ssh command all output 
> from the script on machine b is printed to my screen. It 
> appears the ssh/sudo combination is ignoring the nohup and &.  
> I did not write this script, it was (poorly) provided by a vendor. 
> Any tricks on getting this working.  I searched the net and 
> didn't find anything.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jim