From: Andrew Kaspick <akaspick@...>
Date: 2009-07-10T14:34:30+09:00
Subject: Re: how can I start a shell process and return immediately?

Enling Li wrote:
> I have another quetion related to fire off a back ground shell process 
> on a remote Linux.
> 
>     require "net/ssh"
> 
>     ssh = Net::SSH.start( '10.0.77.87', 'toor',  :password=>'logapp')
>     ssh.exec!("/root/test.pl &")
>     ssh.close
>     puts "I want to be here immediately, but not"
> 
> The above code hangs also because test.pl contains a long sleep and do 
> nothing. Can someone offer me a help?
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> Enling

I run long running remote tasks that return immediately with...

ssh.exec!("nohup /root/test.pl >/tmp/test.log 2>&1 &")
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