[PLUG] a question regarding something like nohup or disown

[Robert Citek]

+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 <russell at personaltelco.net>
wrote:

> 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 those kinds of processes aren't preserved.
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 1:41 PM American Citizen <website.reader3 at gmail.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> > 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 use %disown -r command nor prepend nohup in front of
> > some command line execution with a background exec &.
> >
> > Just how can I attach a nohup to certain running pids, such that if I
> > have to logout of the desktop session, these jobs still keep running?
> >
> > So far, the examples I have seen of nohup and disown, assume that one
> > has a current shell open. They don't discuss what happens after the fact?
> >
> > Currently, if I logout of the desktop session, or restart the desktop, I
> > lose the running programs.
> >
> > Any idea on how to stop this?
> >
> >
> >
> >
>