Questions tagged [disown]
Question related to the "disown" builtin command from shells like bash, zsh or ksh.
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How to redirected output from disowned process to a file
A borgmatic backup command that runs for many hours: long_running_cmd &> file.txt I did Strg+Z then bg then disown to keep the command running I case my laptop goes to sleep or disconnects. I ...
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How to reown a process?
when i run this script with a shortcut(sxhkd): #!/bin/sh MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/music" songs=$(ls "$MUSIC_DIR") filename=$( echo -e "random\n$songs" | dmenu -l 30 -i -p &...
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How to disown a command in the busybox shell?
I'm trying to write a quick-and-dirty shell script daemon to run on a home router that has a busybox shell, which doesn't support disown. Is there any way to do either of the following? Run a command ...
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Running a program outside of terminal
I'm trying to bring up a terminal to interactively ask for a file, and open it using a GUI program: foot /bin/sh -c 'file=`fzf`;(setsid xdg-open "$file" &)' I'm using setsid, because ...
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why websocat or wscat in background with nohup, disown, bg, &, &! don't work
The question is about running a bash script in background with the ability to logout and the process to continue. The issue is that websocat and wscat don't like when I close the terminal or logout.......
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When a program/process is started in bash without nohup, is it later possible to let this program run even after the shell/terminal is closed
When a program/process is started in bash WITHOUT nohup, is it later possible(do something further) to let this program run even after the shell/terminal is closed. Here is a great discussion on ...
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process is still interrupted with closing ssh connection after disown
After running a process, then using: ctrl+z bg disown [-h] Closing the connection still results in interrupting the running process.
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NOHUP stopped working
I've been using nohup for years on my server without any issue. Suddenly today it stopped working and the process ends as soon as I exit SSH. I have multiple accounts on this server and the problem is ...
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`& disown` and `setsid` not working with ssh! They launch an `(sd-pam)` process, which is not working
I'm trying to reboot the server after a specified time. If logged in on the server this can be achieved with a command like this: sleep 10 && reboot To make this command stay alive (without ...
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String literal inside backticks in bash
I would like to create a process that runs in the background and waits for 2 seconds and prints a literal. I'm trying to do `sleep 2 && echo "hello"` & However, it's trying to ...
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Why does my process terminate upon log out despite nohup and disown?
I have an executable (a server made with Unity) which I want to continue to run after I log out. All the interwebs say that I should be able to accomplish this with nohup or disown or both. But it ...
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Get the exit code before disown
I am executing a command using timeout in the following way that waits for seconds and then exits timeout -k 1 10 <command> &> error.log & disown % However, I've realized that since ...
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Completely disown background process
I have a bg process disowned like so: (idea "$code_home/jenkins-jobs" ) & disown The problem is it will start writing its stdout/stderr to the terminal from which I launched it. I would have ...
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Send process to background and disown and exit the terminal (& and && operator clash in zsh)
I need to run a process in the background and then exit the current terminal. The following command results in error: > google-chrome-stable &! && exit zsh: parse error near '&&...
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How does bash's disown work?
On a Linux system, the bash builtin command disown can be used to remove jobs from the current session. How does bash implement this feature? Is setsid() used here, and if so, how does bash trigger ...
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