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guy mograbi
guy mograbi

Reputation: 28598

ssh remote command does not return

I am running ssh somehost "service XXX restart" and the shell hangs.

The service is nodeJS and I see express is listening on port ... print I made in server.js and that's it, it does not return to prompt, it simply hangs.

I tried nohup and & but it does not help. What else can I try?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 13123

Answers (2)

guy mograbi
guy mograbi

Reputation: 28598

turns out that using -t resolves the issue.

ssh -t root@somehost "service XXX restart" does not hang.

other suggestions from the comments that might resolve this:

  • node myScript.js & disown
  • exec node myScript.js &

Upvotes: 9

Yuci
Yuci

Reputation: 30079

Using ssh -t does not hang, but it terminates the remote process too.

What works for me is just to run the remote process in background as shown below:

ssh somehost /path/to/some/script augment1 augment2 &

Upvotes: 0

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