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running screen is slow when running using node's spawn
I'm running this command: screen -S server -X stuff $'\003' when I run it directly in bash it execute immediately. When I'm running it through node's spawn, it takes several seconds for the command to ...
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Why is screen using lots of memory over time?
From time to time I find that a Digitalocean server gets slower, had low memory...
$ free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 985M ...
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Custom systemd unit fails to start gnu screen and fork to background
I am trying to make systemd unit that starts a script inside GNU screen headlessly. I did base my work here on a couple of questions some had that were related. I also tested the ExecStart line in a ...
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Screen inside Mac OS seems to go idle
We have Mac Mini with a classic Mac OS install (12) that runs a command every x minutes within a screen instance using a pipenv command that look like this.
[scripts]
some_pipenv_command="sh -c '...
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Quitting screen without a prompt
I would like to exit my active screen session and kill (not detach) the session.
This is done with CTRL + a and then k, however screen then then prompts you "Really kill this window [y/n]" ...
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How to run Python venv script with screen in crontab
I have a sh script with the following content:
screen -mdS myscript /home/myscript/myscript_env/bin/python3 /home/myscript/bot.py
This script executes a python script and opens it in a new screen.
It ...
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Is the root user able to administer screen for other users?
We're trying to rewrite a draconian screen session killer for users who leave their screen sessions up for an inordinate amount of time and have in some way or other circumvented our session timeouts.
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Stop gnu screen from asking for a password on screen -rd
Looks like GNU screen considers detach a lock request, and always locks when detached. How do I disable this? I trust all users (myself) on the box, and care little about the security implications.
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Howto start and detach screen with user environment on startup?
I want to start screen and put a couple of programs running inside on startup. I've seen many similar posts but none answered my question.
so I put in rc.local following 2 lines:
screen -dmS scr ...
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Cannot stop screen started with systemctl start [closed]
On ubuntu server 20.04
I created a service definition for a Minecraft server within a screen session like that
[Unit]
Description=Minecraft Server
After=network.target
[Service]
User=minecraft
Nice=...
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Upgrading GNU screen in-place without restarting
I am looking into upgrading GNU screen following CVE-2021-26937. My question is simple: can I upgrade GNU screen without restarting my current screen, e.g., by a kind of in-place upgrade mechanism ...
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How to monitor stdout logs in an EC2 screen session?
I'm running a CLI on an EC2 server (Amazon Linux image), which I let run indefinitely with the screen terminal multiplexer. My program queries an API continuously and logs the current state to stdout:
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Keeping processes alive when closing SSH connection on MobaXTerm
I'm facing somme issue when trying to keep process alive when shutting down session in MobaXTerm.
I have a java process which should run on a linux server.
I am using two commands, nohup and screen.
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Do not log colors to screen logfile?
Running an application inside screen to log all output including stacktraces not caught by the applications logging. Screen is however logging all formatting like ^[[58;1H^[[58;1H which results in ...
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screen inside systemd daemon on CentOS 8
So I want to run screen inside a systemd service so that I can give the process (inside the daemon) commands while it is running. See at the end of the question for examples of what I want be be able ...
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