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This + VPN idle killing sessions has forced me to get much better at tmux. I highly recommend for others who use SSH often, especially with WFH, to give it a tr

This + VPN idle killing sessions has forced me to get much better at tmux. I highly recommend for others who use SSH often, especially with WFH, to give it a try. The pane structure has made me much more efficient at my work nowadays.

swalladge 6y ago
+1 to tmux, or even screen if you can't get tmux installed. It also protects against flaky network connections and accidentally closing the local terminal emulator.
whimsicalism 6y ago
tmux is legitimately one of my most useful tools in day to day work.
aftbit 6y ago
When my company started, we used tmux in PROD as a process supervisor. We had tons of lines like: while true; do ./runserver; sleep 10; done in a shell script that would start a new server with one window per process. It got called from /etc/rc.local on boot IIRC. Deploys meant pulling the new code on the server (or maybe just editing it in vim right there), then just Ctrl-C in every terminal (or when I got lazier, `killall runserver`). This was back in 2010 or so... I have professionally come a long way in the intervening decade, and no longer have any PROD services running in tmux panes, but I definitely learned to love that tool.
- rovr138 6y ago
  I've done things similar and do it for quick and dirty. Currently I have something like that on a RPi but instead of while true; I have, while [[ ! -f "$DIRECTORY"/backup_exit.stop ]]; do sleep 3600 # sleep an hour time /home/ubuntu/.pyenv/versions/backup/bin/python main.py done Whenever I want the process to stop, `touch backup_exit.stop` . This waits until the run finishes and exists on the next loop. Anyway, that is saved to a 'backup.sh' Then I have also, #!/bin/bash session="test" backup="/path/to/backup.sh" #create detached session named test tmux new-session -d -s ${session} # Create windows tmux rename-window -t :0 'backup' #rename the first one tmux new-window -n 'htop' # Run processes tmux send-keys -t 'backup' "$backup" ENTER tmux send-keys -t 'htop' 'htop' ENTER And this is run automatically on @reboot via cron.
- syntaxing 6y ago
  This is super interesting! Wouldn’t nohup do the same thing though?

swalladge 6y ago

+1 to tmux, or even screen if you can't get tmux installed. It also protects against flaky network connections and accidentally closing the local terminal emulator.

whimsicalism 6y ago

tmux is legitimately one of my most useful tools in day to day work.

aftbit 6y ago

When my company started, we used tmux in PROD as a process supervisor. We had tons of lines like: while true; do ./runserver; sleep 10; done in a shell script that would start a new server with one window per process. It got called from /etc/rc.local on boot IIRC. Deploys meant pulling the new code on the server (or maybe just editing it in vim right there), then just Ctrl-C in every terminal (or when I got lazier, `killall runserver`). This was back in 2010 or so... I have professionally come a long way in the intervening decade, and no longer have any PROD services running in tmux panes, but I definitely learned to love that tool.

rovr138 6y ago
I've done things similar and do it for quick and dirty. Currently I have something like that on a RPi but instead of while true; I have, while [[ ! -f "$DIRECTORY"/backup_exit.stop ]]; do sleep 3600 # sleep an hour time /home/ubuntu/.pyenv/versions/backup/bin/python main.py done Whenever I want the process to stop, `touch backup_exit.stop` . This waits until the run finishes and exists on the next loop. Anyway, that is saved to a 'backup.sh' Then I have also, #!/bin/bash session="test" backup="/path/to/backup.sh" #create detached session named test tmux new-session -d -s ${session} # Create windows tmux rename-window -t :0 'backup' #rename the first one tmux new-window -n 'htop' # Run processes tmux send-keys -t 'backup' "$backup" ENTER tmux send-keys -t 'htop' 'htop' ENTER And this is run automatically on @reboot via cron.
syntaxing 6y ago
This is super interesting! Wouldn’t nohup do the same thing though?