remote control xbox and leave programms running on exit

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maccallan
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remote control xbox and leave programms running on exit

Post by maccallan »

hi folks,
after 2 years i continue doing gentoox on my xbox.
mainly i have small programs (bitttorrent,..) running that are remote controlled by me from time to time.
what i want to do:
running a commandline bittorrent client (rtorrent) that does not exit when i'm closing the ssh client.

in the past i simply used a vnc server to remote control my p2p sorftware from remote computers but that was too slow and inefficient.

[in the long term i want to have torrentflux (a torrent client with webinterface) running but i just successfully installed the apache and samba server so i'm too frustrated to do more of this stuff now...]

thanks!
orochi
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Post by orochi »

emerge --sync
emerge -av screen
emerge -av bittorrent
screen
bittorrent-curses /path/to.torrent

to exit but keep torrents running type CTRL+A then CTRL+D

to resume login via ssh and type

screen -R


http://www.cyberciti.biz/nixcraft/vivek ... client.php
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-43 ... urses.html

that should be the jist of it, Bittorrent is masked for me so i dont wanna bother going through getting it installed, but theres enough info on google for bittorent-curses or bittorrent headless to get by
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Post by zlasher »

I'm on a bit of thin ice here - but are you sure you just couldn't start the program with the nohup option?

try doing a

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nohup <bittorrent thingy> &
You'd have to check with

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ps aux | grep <bittorrent thingy>
to see if it's still running - and read the "nohup" file where you started it to see any output..

Read up on nohup on google



Steinar T
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maccallan
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Post by maccallan »

@orochi: thanks you're my hero of the day!
screen is a really mighty tool, just the tool i needed.
rtorrent now runs succesfully even if i exit ssh connection.

(sorry zlasher haven't tried the nohup option => will remember that command for other programs :-))

thanks dudes!
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