Question

Running a batch file in a different process

Asked by: angelblade27

I have a .bat file which starts selenium server and i want to start it in a background thread so that when i disconnect my current sessions it remains open and also for it not to halt execution.
I'm ssh'ing into the windows box from my linux box with cygwin.
I'm using the command:
ssh 10.53.30.188 "/cygdrive/h/startSeleniumProfile.bat"
to try to start it
I also tried
ssh 10.53.30.188 "/cygdrive/h/startSeleniumProfile.bat &" but to no avail

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2009-11-04 at 14:07:04ID24872712
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Answers

 

by: woolmilkporcPosted on 2009-11-04 at 14:13:29ID: 25744586

Please try

ssh -f 10.53.30.188 " nohup /cygdrive/h/startSeleniumProfile.bat &"

 

by: angelblade27Posted on 2009-11-04 at 14:24:10ID: 25744694

no it still keeps it in the current session.
Just to give little bit more insite the .bat file contains
java -jar C:\selenium-remote-control-0.9.2\selenium-server-0.9.2\selenium-server.jar -firefoxProfileTemplate "C:\Documents and Settings\sujitv\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\jrje263q.selenium"

 

by: stephenhoekstraPosted on 2009-11-05 at 06:40:48ID: 25749876

I would use screen.  Screen lets you start a new terminal session within your session and run applications while giving you the ability to 'detach' from your session.  The terminal session can then be 'reattached' to at a later stage.  So you would do something like this once off:

$ screen -S Selenium
[starting new screen session]
$ /cygdrive/h/startSeleniumProfile.bat
press <ctrl>,a,d to detach.  To reattach you would do
$ screen -r Selenium

After detaching you'd be brought back to your original $ prompt and your process/batch file will continue to run in the background forever.. atleast until someone manually closes/kills it or the box is restarted.  If you require root to run the batch file, I would advice su'ing up BEFORE running screen, and not having a su'ed session inside a normal user's screen session.

 

by: stephenhoekstraPosted on 2009-11-05 at 07:16:25ID: 25750324

Ah sorry, I missed the bit regarding connecting TO a Windows SSH server, I thought it was FROM a Windows machine..

You could look at the 'start' command, /B might be the option you are after ('start /?' from a cmd prompt).. Interested how one would do this so I'll keep looking.

 

by: angelblade27Posted on 2009-11-05 at 08:28:18ID: 25751106

start isn't a command in cygwin
$ start /?
-bash: start: command not found

 

by: stephenhoekstraPosted on 2009-11-05 at 09:28:10ID: 25751789

Yeah, but you can run an SSH server on a Windows box that'll give you a CMD prompt.  Pretty much like when you run a Telnet server on a Windows box, it'll give you a CMD prompt to use Windows commands..

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