[CentOS] remote command execution

[Les Mikesell]

Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>> Can you give an actual example of something that fails?
>>
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> Les, it's not that it fails it is just that plink sends the command and waits for it to complete execution. Even if the shell script uses your nohup syntax, if I put in a long dd as a test command then have plink execute the script, it will actually wait for it to complete and even show dd's output! Sending the command to at worked perfectly!

That means you left one or all of the remote shell's stdin/out/error 
connected (not surprising, since the example earlier only redirected a 
subshell) and the ssh connection is waiting for them to close.  Try 
running the nohup as part of the actual command line - and you may need 
to add an </dev/null - or do an
exec </dev/null >output_file 2>error_file
and exit.  Check the man page for 'nohup'.  It will redirect sdtout and 
error if you don't, but I've forgotten if it does anything with stdin.

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   Les Mikesell
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