On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 16:21 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > At 2:54 PM +0800 10/11/06, Ed Greshko wrote: > >M.Lewis wrote: > >> > >> I'm sure the answer to this question is incredibly simple and I have > >> looked through the archives, but I really don't know what to look for > >> (hence the poor subject). > >> > >> I want to ssh into a remote machine, start a download (say wget -c > >> xyz.iso), then close my ssh session, but still maintain the download > >> while I'm no longer logged into the remote machine. > >> > >> Can this be done? If so, how? > > > >I find it easiest to use wget with the -b parameter along with nohup as in: > > > >nohup wget -b -c http://blah.blah.com > > Does backgrounding a task have the same effect? That is, would: > > wget -b -c http://blah.blah.com & > > do as well? I didn't see anything relevent in man bash. > > I've played with screen. I may actually use it soon. ssh servername "screen -d -m wget -b -c http://blah"; Works find, lasts a long time! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - The gene pool could use a little chlorine. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
