Feature #524
Updated by Daniel Curtis over 9 years ago
From time to time I need to compile a program and close my ssh session, and doing this will kill all running processes spawned from the session it was created from. Luckily there is a handy tool called @tmux@ that will keep processes launched from within the tmux session from dying, even after logging out (as long as the system is running).
h2. Install tmux
* On Debian/Ubuntu
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apt-get install tmux
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* On Arch
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pacman -S tmux
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* On FreeBSD
<pre>
pkg install tmux
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h2. Running tmux
* Once installed, spawn a tmux session:
<pre>
tmux
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* Now run what ever process that takes a long time:
<pre>
cd /usr/src/project
make
</pre>
* While the process is running press +@Ctrl + B@+, then +@D@+.
* Then reattach the session to view its progress:
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tmux attach
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* To list the running tmux sessions, run:
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tmux list-sessions
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