Use rsh and in the remote command preface it with stty -nohup, like such: C:\rsh <host> "stty -nohup;<command>" This will tell the command to disassociate from the shell. -Ross ----- Original Message ----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org <centos-bounces at centos.org> To: 'centos at centos.org' <centos at centos.org> Sent: Mon Mar 17 18:13:48 2008 Subject: [CentOS] remote command execution I need to launch a job remotely from a Windows machine on a CentOS box, the caveat is that I can't maintain a connection once I have initiated the job. Anyone got an idea how I can accomplish this? Thanks! jlc _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080317/14a410c7/attachment-0005.html>