On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 11:31 PM Kevin Williams wrote:
> Russell,
>
> Yes, tmux works the same way.
>
> Rich,
>
> tmux and screen are command line applications that launch and manage
> sub-shells (a shell in a shell). You can remote into a server, like your
> shell at your web host, start editing
Okay, to follow up with results of my poll (now that several days have gone
by and new responses have tailed off):
21 people responded who (selection bias) all thought PLUG living into the
future was important.
15 of 21 said they were ready to return to in-person meetings
5 of 21 said "maybe"
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Russell,
Yes, tmux works the same way.
Rich,
tmux and screen are command line applications that launch and manage sub-shells
(a shell in a shell). You can remote into a server, like your shell at your web
host, start editing a file, open another window and view a man page, and then
detach
I am curious what distro are you running?
I am running openSuSE and usually clock up about half year on the KDE
session before some update forces reboot. I keep it running 24/7 to pull
emails local, monitor environment (temp/humidity), VPN, remote desktop,
other services. I have not
+1 for screen, tmux, or Docker ( or screen/tmux in Docker ). They all work
really well for reattaching to a running process to view the display.
nohup works, but I've never had good luck with it.
Regards,
- Robert
On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 3:25 PM Russell Senior
wrote:
> Have you tried screen
Have you tried screen (or tmux) to see if it does what you want? With
screen (I don't use tmux, so not sure), you can detach and reattach to the
session, and all your windows within that session are still there and
running. I think the limitation might be that GUI stuff isn't in the
session, so
On Tue, 8 Nov 2022, Michael Ewan wrote:
Somebody may have a better idea, ...
screen? tmux?
Rich
Somebody may have a better idea, but knowing you may lose the session you
generally would want to start any jobs with nohup and make sure any output
of the job is sent to log files for later processing when you check and see
the job has ended. You might consider a job execution framework such as
Hi:
I am running the KDE Plasmashell desktop, but it has memory leaks and
eventually I will run out of system memory.
If I logout, I will lose certain running jobs, which I really want to
keep running.
However if I start a shell, and do the %jobs -l command, nothing is
there, so I cannot
