Here is what I am trying to do: >From a central server running HP-UX, I would like to shutdown multiple Fedora PCs using a script. This in itself is not a problem. I have an account on the machines added to the sudoers file to allow them to shut down the systems, and connect to said systems using ssh. I can get the systems to shut down remotely using the command ssh -t user@host "sudo /sbin/shutdown -h now". If I run the script on the host computer it works like I would expect. The problem I am running into is the host computer is typically accessed through one of the Fedora PCs being used to shut it down. So when I run the script, it gets to the point where it is telling the current computer to shutdown, the script is terminated and no further systems shut down. I have tried changing the command to the following: ssh -t user@host "sudo /sbin/shutdown -h +1" but the script wants to wait for the shutdown command to complete, which takes a minute. ssh -t user@host "nohup sudo /sbin/shutdown -h now&" but the command seems to never even run (there is no nohup.out file generated) ssh -t user@host "echo 'sudo /sbin/shutdown -h now' | at now + 1 minute" but the command never seems to run I have made another script on the target PCs that merely consists of a sleep command followed by the shutdown command and tried the above with the same result. I have also tried using screen but again it seems like it doesn't work properly. Anyone have any ideas?

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Here is what I am trying to do: >From a central server running HP-UX, I would like to shutdown multiple Fedora PCs using a script. This in itself is not a problem. I have an account on the machines added to the sudoers file to allow them to shut down the systems, and connect to said systems using ssh. I can get the systems to shut down remotely using the command ssh -t user@host "sudo /sbin/shutdown -h now". If I run the script on the host computer it works like I would expect. The problem I am running into is the host computer is typically accessed through one of the Fedora PCs being used to shut it down. So when I run the script, it gets to the point where it is telling the current computer to shutdown, the script is terminated and no further systems shut down.

Anyone have any ideas?