From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2008-12-18T19:27:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::SSH - kick off background job

Sebastian W. wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to tell Net::SSH to start running a script but
> then effectively "disown" that process?
> 
> I have a long-running job I'd like to kick off using Net::SSH but I
> don't want the connection to persist for the entire length of the job. I
> just want to kick off the job, let it start running and then basically
> not care what happens. Of course I care, but I have a different process
> that will actually pick up whether or not the long-running task was
> successful or not.

nohup somecommand someargs &
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