[ILUG] Question about ssh

[Philip Reynolds]

On 02/08/07, Frank Peelo <f26p at eircom.net> wrote:
> If I go on holiday (to a campsite near the sea in, say, Wexford or
> Waterford) and want to do something with my home pc (Mandriva 2007.0),
> would I be right in thinking that my chance of finding an internet cafe
> that would let me use ssh is essentially zero?
>
> Also, if I use ssh or telnet (windows has telnet, but I don't think it
> has ssh), is it possible to start a program or script running, and leave
> it running when I exit? I tried it from here, log in as sshuser, change
> to another user, start a script with &, type exit and I get a message
>
>      There are stopped jobs.
>
> Is it possible to exit and leave the jobs unstopped?

generally, I try to start jobs with screen if I know I need them to
keep running after I logout. Saves the output for me and any error
messages. If that's not available or this is something you've already
ran and don't want to stop you may be able to use the shell builtin
`disown' depending on your shell and version.

Phil.