On Sun, 28 September 2014, at 5:08 pm, [email protected] wrote: >>> ... >>> I want to run programs, which insist on haveing a terminal >>> to write their status to and which are writing files which >>> their results on a headless computer (beaglebone). >> >> I would suggest to run the program in a screen session, you can disconnect >> frim the session and reconnect later. > > ...the headless device will be booted and the programm will be startet > via a kind of autostart script. No human intervention is > wanted/possible...
It's certainly possible to write such scripts to start automatically. E.G. from tmux's manpage: tmux new-session -d 'vi /etc/passwd' \; split-window -d \; attach Tested here: #!/bin/bash tmux new-session -n meino -d tmux send -t meino ls ENTER You would be able to access this: $ tmux list-w 0: meino* (1 panes) [80x39] [layout c85d,80x39,0,0,0] @0 (active) $ tmux a I'm not saying that a terminal multiplexer is the best way to solve your problem - I don't understand why the output of your program is not directable to a text file - but it's definitely possible to script the process of running a program in a terminal multiplexer window or session. You could write a script to see if a specific named session exists, and start one if it doesn't. You could then call this every 5 minutes in cron. Note that, in the example above I've named the window "meino" - I think you might be advised to name both window and session. You can attach sessions by name. I referred to this page: http://serverfault.com/questions/339390/run-command-in-detached-tmux-session It's a top google hit for "run command in tmux" Stroller.
