Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> 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 >> >> > > Right, but do something that takes a while, like a large dd from /dev/random and see what plink does :) Can you give an actual example of something that fails? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com