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 <command line for miner here> 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.