[Linux-disciples] Re: ssh and stdout

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 04:13:16PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> If I try to run the command "ssh [machineName] 'mutt'",
> nothing appears on my screen. I suspect that the stdout from
> any remotely-executed program gets thrown away. Is there any
> way to retrieve it? The goal would be to run the remote copy
> of mutt, then quit out of the ssh session when mutt exits.
> How does one do this?

Forgive me: the stdout doesn't get thrown away, as a simple
"ssh [machineName] 'cat [filename]'" will show. So there
must be some kind of problem with the terminal to which mutt
output is getting spat. Again, any ideas about how to
retrieve the output?

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