From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2008-12-19T17:54:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::SSH - kick off background job

Sebastian W. wrote:
> E.g. usually you might be able to do something like 'ssh me@box "cat 
> somefile.txt"' but my colleague pointed out that to "disown" the process 
> I'd need to do something like
> 
> ssh me@box "nohup command" & -- it's the ampersand outside the quotes 
> that I wasn't sure how to deal with.

But I thought you were using Net::SSH? In that case, the ssh me@box part 
is not used.

Anyway, you want the ampersand *inside* the quotes if you want the 
"nohup command" to return immediately, so that you can logout from the 
remote system while the remote command is running.
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