A couple disclaimers:

* I'm not a developer nor a sys admin but had to learn PERL to get some stuff done

* I have about 2-3 weeks of self taught experience with PERL and using remote servers

So, with that out of the way, here's my situation.

I've created some few scraping scripts that I've installed on a remote Linux server (Ubuntu Hardy) which I've been executing manually after establishing an SSH connection from my local (home) laptop to the server. The problem I'm having is that the SSH sessions really chug up my machine as I have to leave the scripts and the session running for a couple days. During these periods, my lappy so is so freaking slow and having to do my actual job (UI design) becomes really tedious. So, is there another way to execute those scripts remotely without using SSH so I can continue using my laptop as normal and just periodically check the remote db to see what data has been collected?

In reply to Is SSH the only way to execute remote, one off PERL scripts? by adornach

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