Re: Progress bringing up tom4 and tom5

[Ron Wickersham <rjw@alembic.com>]

hi Tom,

the idea of opening separate windows on your workstation is good if your
remote application needs to report stuff back to you in the terminal window
all the time it's running.

but if your application just needs to be started, you can use one terminal
and after the ssh connection, type the command to start the remote program
running and follow it with and ampersand (shift 7).   this will put the
program in the background (disconnect it from the terminal process that
you used to start it up) and give you back a prompt from which you can
start up a second program.    if it's also put in the background you can
disconnect the ssh session and use the terminal window on your workstation
to ssh to another control computer and start things up.    and once you
get manually starting running then we can help you get this done with a
script that would let you start up multiple processes on multiple computers
with a single command (even run that script at a certain time each day
as a cron job).

-ron

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On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Thomas F. Droege wrote:

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> From: Thomas F. Droege <droege@fastmail.fm>
> To: The Amateur Sky Survey <tass@listserv.wwa.com>
> Subject: Progress bringing up tom4 and tom5
>
> This is mostly to show that progress is being made.  For the first time
> I moved one of the tom4 focus motors.  This brings up how I should try
> to operate in the future.
>
> At this time I have each tom on a separate computer with a keyboard,
> monitor and mouse.  tom2 and tom3 have computers in the dome.  The tom1
> computer which is in the tower has it's computer downstars in the
> workroom.
>
> To start a night's run I go to each computer and start two programs in
> two different Konsols.  One runs the data collection program and the
> other looks for data blocks and processes them.
>
> Dragged kicking and screaming into the modern world, I would now like to
> run everything from my nice 24" monitor in my office. (where I can see
> the type size)
>
> I can ssh to each computer from separtate konsole windows and start one
> program.  How do I run two programs on a remote computer?
>
> OK, I know enough to just try various things.  I could just open up a
> lot of windows and run a program on each one??
>
> Someone who is an expert at such things might suggest how I should
> really run.
>
> Tom Droege
> --
>   Thomas F. Droege
>   droege@fastmail.fm
>
>