I'd just run them inside screen sessions, then you can connect from wherever and check on them.

Just something like:

screen -S "name of screen session here" -X screen  2>&1 1>/dev/null

One line like that for each instance of the miner and run it from whever, such as /etc/init/rc.local

I'm sure there should be a way to overclock from the commandline too, just have a search and run that command before spawning the miners.