Marius van Witzenburg » Wrapper http://mariusvw.com We fight for our survival, we fight! Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:35:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How to get SSH to execute a command in the background on target machine http://mariusvw.com/2010/03/16/how-to-get-ssh-to-execute-a-command-in-the-background-on-target-machine/ http://mariusvw.com/2010/03/16/how-to-get-ssh-to-execute-a-command-in-the-background-on-target-machine/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:41:12 +0000 mariusvw http://mariusvw.com/?p=1382 If you try to accomplish this directly with SSH... I can tell you, this can be hard to get the job done!

But the solution is quite simple... Create a wrapper around your command which does the job for you.

First prepare your SSH command like:

ssh -ax marius@192.168.3.7 "sh /home/marius/ssh-wrapper > /dev/null 2>&1; exit"

Second is to create the wrapper:

#!/bin/sh
sh /home/marius/run &

You don't have to make the files executable since you prefix it with sh.

This works for me on 2 machines without any problems so far.

Good luck! :-)

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