[H-GEN] Detaching in putty (was Re: General Digest, Vol 64, Issue 17 (was Script E-book ?))

[Benjamin Fowler]

Hello all,

On 22 Feb 2009, at 21:03, John Howell wrote:

> how about nohup
>
> ie:
> nohup myjob.sh > myjob.std 2>myjob.err &
>
> Then you can log on and look at the logs. I don't think you'll be able
> to
> interact with it again.

My favoured solution for long running jobs that I might want to  
interact with again in the future is to use screen(1).  It was more  
useful in the old days when people could only get shell or green- 
screen access to their boxen (or if you, like me, were stuck on  
annoyingly buttoned down university student servers which only ever  
permitted one login at a time).

If interaction isn't needed, consider using cron.  "man crontab" for  
the details.


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HTH,

Ben.