Using FTP on a remote Machine

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aquamanx

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What I want to do is be able to log into a machine start an FTP download on remote machine by logging into it from ssh. Then be able to close out the terminal window on my machine and still have it finish the download is this possible???

thanks.

Spencer Parker
 
Not if you close the window; this will kill all processes. A good terminal emulator (like Terminal.app) will warn you of this when you tell it to close a window which has active processes running in it.
 
well, you can nohup the current session, start FTP (interactively), send the FTP client in background, and logout.

This will work better if you don't use an interactive FTP client.

Please beware that on some implementations of client/servers, you can send them in endless loop on stdin if you do this.
 
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