Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> put everything in a shell script, and run the script. >> > > Yea, I tried that but neglected to see how it behaved from inside an ssh session. It works there but with plink :( > Back to the drawing board... I just tried: % cat /tmp/test.sh nohup /usr/bin/tail -f /tmp/test.in > /tmp/test.out 2>&1 & (note that all output is redirected) C:\> plink user at host /tmp/test.sh ... C:\> on the remote host % echo "10" >> /tmp/test.in % cat /tmp/test.out ... 10 % ps ax|grep tail ... /usr/bin/tail -f /tmp/test.in