• Table of contents
• • Install tmux
  • Running tmux
• Screen
  • Install screen
  • Running screen

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).

h1 Tmux

Install tmux¶

• On Debian/Ubuntu
  

  apt-get install tmux
  

• On Arch
  

  pacman -S tmux
  

• On FreeBSD
  

  pkg install tmux
  

Running tmux¶

• Once installed, spawn a tmux session:
  

  tmux
  

• Now run what ever process that takes a long time:
  

  cd /usr/src/project
  make
  

• While the process is running press Ctrl + b, then d.

• Then reattach the session to view its progress:
  

  tmux attach
  

• To list the running tmux sessions, run:
  

  tmux list-sessions
  

Screen¶

Install screen¶

• On Debian/Ubuntu
  

  apt-get install screen
  

• On Arch
  

  pacman -S screen
  

• On FreeBSD
  

  pkg install screen
  

Running screen¶

• Once installed, spawn a tmux session:
  

  screen
  

• Now run what ever process that takes a long time:
  

  cd /usr/src/project
  make
  

• While the process is running press Ctrl + a, then d.

• Then reattach the session to view its progress:
  

  screen -r