From: Enling Li <enling.li@...>
Date: 2009-07-11T01:45:53+09:00
Subject: Re: how can I start a shell process and return immediately?

Andrew,

That is excellent. It resolved the issue.
Thank you very much.

Enling


Andrew Kaspick wrote:
> 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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