Hmm probably they race starting the server and only one wins. What tmux version is this?
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 03:39:48PM -0900, Donavan Kienenberger wrote: > Ok that worked, although I had to add two things to my cron scripts. I > had to make sure my environment variables were sourced before running > tmux and I had to stagger the start-up of my cron scripts using sleep. > Apparently tmux can't handle multiple scripts hammering it all at once > at start-up. It would only create a session for one script randomly > out of the five scripts that cron was trying to run. I staggered my > scripts five seconds apart, and so far they have booted up smoothly > each time. Thanks for your help! > > Here is the updated crontab script for anyone attempting to do > something similar: > > #!/bin/bash > > # Wait to start, tmux kludges if all sessions run at once in cron. > # next script would be sleep 10 ... > /bin/sleep 5 > > # Set up the paths and environmental variables to run tmux config. > source /home/xtuser/.bashrc > > # Start the tmux session > /usr/bin/tmux new-session -d -s mysession > > # Set up the paths and environmental variables to run script. > /usr/bin/tmux send-keys -t mysession "source /home/user/.bashrc" C-m > > etc... > > --------------------------------- > Donavan Kienenberger > V-ADAPT Systems Administrator > Volcanic-Ash Detection, Avoidance > and Preparedness for Transportation > > > > On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Nicholas Marriott > <nicholas.marri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > These will all race against each other. If you want them to run in parallel > > you need to specify -t to all commands or the send-keys will probably go to > > whatever session started most recently. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK > Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. > Download it for free now! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > tmux-users mailing list > tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
