[PLUG] a question regarding something like nohup or disown

[Kevin Williams]

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 from the tmux or screen session, log out of the remote session, and come back to your running text editor and opened man page later by reattaching to the same tmux or screen session.

tmux even supports splitting a terminal window into multiple panes and run apps side by side or top and bottom. I don’t know if screen supports side by side.

On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 9:28 PM, Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 experienced memory leaks.
>
> Tomas
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2022, 21:41 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?
>>
>>
>>
>>