[SOLVED] How can I avoid script timeouts over SSH?

[altonbr]

I'm trying to run a script like this:

time ./script.sh /public/ /archives/
but my SSH connection keeps timing out after ~53 minutes (~3200 seconds).

How can I run the shell script in the background so that if my connection gets dropped, it keeps running?

[CptPicard]

man screen

[dtmilano]

or simply

nohup command &

[CptPicard]

But with nohup you'll have to remember to redirect output to file or you'll lose it... right?

[dtmilano]

Not really, nohup automatically appends output to nohup.out ot $HOME/nohup.out if stdout is a terminal.

[altonbr]

What about appending the script with '&'? Does that give it a pid?

[dtmilano]

Strictly, appending nohup command with '&', runs it in the background and returns the prompt.


$ nohup sleep 3600 &
nohup: ignoring input and appending output to `nohup.out'
[1] 9870
$ ps
PID TTY TIME CMD
7978 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
9870 pts/0 00:00:00 sleep
9880 pts/0 00:00:00 ps
$ jobs
[1]+ Running nohup sleep 3600 &

[altonbr]

EDIT: nevermind, the prompt just wasn't showing up until I hit enter a couple of times.

So yeah, that's great! Looks like its doing its thing!