On Sep 22, 2016 12:49 PM, "bruce" <badouglas@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hey guys.
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> Trying to get my heads around something. I'm looking to automate a process. Basically, I want to kick off/initiate a number of processes on remote boxes. I've looked at different online sites, but I'm missing something..
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> I can ssh into the box, trivial.
> I know I can create a "screen" process, that allows me to then later access the 'screen' session to see the progress of the action. And of course I can access the screen and fire up my process.
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> However, (and here's where I'm not getting how to do it) - I'd like to be able to auto/programatically :
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> ssh into the remote box
> create the screen session (with a name I define)
> access the screen session, and then fire up/start my process
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> If I can figure out how to do all of this initially for a test, I can of course roll out the rest of my tests...
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> Hope this makes sense.
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> (if someone has a chunk of code, or pointers to any code I can look at, that would be great.)
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> I suspect this is really trivial.
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> Thanks again...
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Do you need to interact with this automated process?  If not, running it as a oneshot service unit might be a better fit.  I'm curious what the thing does, and what led you to screen as a way of doing it.

--Pete