Re: screen(1) on boot

2009-04-09 Thread Paul de Weerd
Hi Nick, you've gotten some good advice already, so maybe this is overkill, but here's how I do it (added to /etc/rc.local on my machine at work) : /usr/bin/su pawe -c "cd /home/pawe; ksh -lic '/usr/local/bin/screen -d -m /usr/local/bin/irssi'" Starting a shell to start your screen ensures your

Re: screen(1) on boot

2009-04-09 Thread Markus Hennecke
Nick Guenther wrote: Yeah, it's there, that's why I said "I don't have to bother with sudo -u" to switch from root to my user. I still want to know what's killing screen. With that I can't help you either, but I run it with the following syntax successfully from rc.local: su -l $USER -c '/us

Re: screen(1) on boot

2009-04-08 Thread Nick Guenther
I ran it for a while but it's too barebones for me. IIRC, It doesn't let me monitor torrent-packets and peers and all the other niceties the usual torrent clients have. Especially, it doesn't support encryption. On 08/04/2009, Abel Camarillo wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 04:58:38PM -0400, Nick

Re: screen(1) on boot

2009-04-08 Thread Nick Guenther
Yeah, it's there, that's why I said "I don't have to bother with sudo -u" to switch from root to my user. I still want to know what's killing screen. Thanks, -Nick On 08/04/2009, Mike Erdely wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 04:58:38PM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: >> I'm trying to make my torrent

Re: screen(1) on boot

2009-04-08 Thread Mike Erdely
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 04:58:38PM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: > I'm trying to make my torrents get started with my server. A script is > at http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-859543.html that starts > it up in a detached screen session, but obviously the linux-ism of > that script won't w

Re: screen(1) on boot

2009-04-08 Thread Abel Camarillo
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 04:58:38PM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: > I'm trying to make my torrents get started with my server. A script is > at http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-859543.html that starts > it up in a detached screen session, but obviously the linux-ism of > that script won't w