Subj : Re: MPL Coding - firing a bash script??
To   : paulie420
From : Gamgee
Date : Sun Dec 01 2024 12:11 pm

-=> paulie420 wrote to All <=-

 pa> I know I've done this before - but lemme state what I'm doing. I'm
 pa> needing to run a bash script on an external server from a Mystic MPL. I
 pa> setup SSH keys and I can run the script with a;

 pa> ssh user@x.x.x.x "bash /some/bash/script.sh"

 pa> But I don't want the USER to wait on that command to finish. (It
 pa> imports URLs a user enters into my ArchiveBox archive, but takes some
 pa> minutes to finish...)

 pa> So if I was just gonna run the command on the BBS CLI, I think I could
 pa> just do;

 pa> ssh user@x.x.x.x "bash /some/bash/script.sh" &

 pa> ... is there some way I can successfully do this from the MPL? ... the
 pa> MPL runs that above command and the script keeps running, and finishes,
 pa> but the user gets dumped out before its done?

I don't know diddly about Mystic or MPL, but is it just as simple as 
including the '&' in the call to bash, thusly:

ssh user@x.x.x.x "bash /some/bash/script.sh &"  ?

Easy enough to try, anyway.



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