Questions tagged [session]
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Processes in a session in an interactive shell vs in a script
If I run this command in a script it doesn't produce output except header from the ps:
# Taken from Advanced Bash Usage on youtube:
echo "$(echo "$(echo "$(echo "$(ps wwf -s $$)")")")"
This is ...
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How to prevent $TMOUT from timing out interactive shell session when it's set as readonly and exec or env trick won't work
Linux Redhat 7 platform, with bash-4.1.2-48.el6.x86_64.
The interactive shell timeout value on my servers is ridiculous.
$ echo $TMOUT
900
So I've read the great post below, but unfortunately it ...
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XFCE Session & Startup Application terminal command to turn on and off
In XFCE4 I can create my own custom start-up commands at Settings Manager > Session & Startup > Application Startup and turn them on or off by clicking on the command's check-box.
Is there a ...
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Logout button reboots the machine
On CentOS 7.4 running XFCE, most of the time if I click the Logout button, it will reboot/poweroff the machine.
It does the same thing if I use the Logout button in the xfce panel or in the ...
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Problem starting session Debian 9
I'm working with Debian 9. My computer has two partitions, so I have Debian alongside W10.
I needed to install a Windows program (STAMP), so I decided to install Wine instead to do it in the Windows ...
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Unable to login for graphical session on Mint + Not available space on filesystem
I've been trying to start a graphical session with all users on my system but I've been always reverted to the login screen.
After initiating a terminal with (Ctrl+Alt+F1) from there, I've been able ...
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logname / who -u / how to get the pid of the current session
The command "logname" gives me the name of the login user irrespective of subsequent "su"-calls.
E.g. in current mint, the command "logname" is broken und gives no logname.
I want to get its ...
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New session freeze after internet disconnected during a session
When I am forgetting a X2go session opened and the internet is disconnecting then X2go closes automatically and when opening X2go session it is stuck and not working.
I tried to reboot X2go server ...
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Exit shell with shortcut (not typing exit) that closes session properly
I use a ProxyJump command for a number of ssh sessions I use daily, and also switch users a lot on these sessions and having to type exit 3 or 4 times in a row isn't too fun.
I am aware of newline + ~...
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Seeing user two times
Consider I have created a user 'test' during Installation which I use to login to my system. My root user is 'root'. I further open two terminal sessions for each of the users respectively. Now the ...
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How to open just one app and block any other thing on session opened via xrdp
I'm using linux mint 19.
I'm trying to config a computer to some people will be able to connect to it and use only one app.
I mean, I'd like that when any people that connects to this computer via ...
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Manually restore saved session files on KDE using qdbus command
At times, i have multiple konsole terminal open with multiple tabs. I would like to save and restore it manually, just in case i accidentally close the window. In KDE there is a command to save the ...
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How to attach to a tmux session after deleting it's session file? [duplicate]
tmux keeps track of active sessions in a file, on my system this is in /tmp/tmux-1000/default. Recently I manually cleared everything in the /tmp directory, removing this session file.
Normally, you ...
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How to login and Download the file in the same session in R language?
I am trying to do login and download the file with using a package httr and jsonlite in R language. I write the following code :
library(data.table)
library(jsonlite)
library(httr)
library(properties)...
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How can start multiple tmux autoscript?
This is in my TmuxHome.sh Script with I can start One Only Tmux Session:
# tmux Start Script Need To Work!!
if which tmux >/dev/null 2>&1; then
#if not inside a tmux session, and ...
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Can a (non-)controlling process detach its controlling terminal by closing its file descriptor?
In a process session with a controlling terminal,
if the controlling process closes the file descriptor of the controlling terminal, does the process session become detached from the controlling ...
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Exporting $PULSE_SERVER at start up
In order to run flatpak applications (like Discord or Spotify) I currently have to export the $PUSLE_SERVER in my ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc like so:
export PULSE_SERVER=unix:/tmp/pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n/...
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Can attaching to tmux sessions be password protected, similar to gnu screen?
I've been using gnu screen for many years, and I've been looking into switching to tmux.
I can't figure out how to make tmux require a password when attaching to a session. In gnu screen, I use ...
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What is the “login session” of a process? [duplicate]
In the manpage of ps
lsession SESSION displays login session identifier of a process.
What does the "login session" of a process mean?
ps has other fields cgname and cgroup for the cgroup ...
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Why do some programs' processes exist after forking a child, without the child starting a new process session?
Here are some of the steps for creating a daemon process from a given process,
the given process exists soon after forking a child,
the child calls start a new session and also a new group, by ...
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Prevent Logoff from Killing tmux Session
I have noticed that a logoff (log out) from my X user session will kill any tmux session I have initiated, even sessions I had run with sudo tmux and similar commands. I am sure that this formerly did ...
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Get time of the last session in seconds
I'm getting the time of the last session of an specific user using the last command like below:
last -aiF -n 1 fakeuser
The output of this command is something like:
fakeuser pts/0 Tue Nov 27 11:...
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Fedora 28: Generate kerberos ticket on login
I'm trying to generate kerberos ticket when I login on my computer(Fedora 28). I want to achieve it using PAM. my /etc/pam.d/system-auth looks like this:
auth required ...
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Are there any practical reasons for setting a maxlogins limit for users in limits.conf? What are the benefits?
Why should I set a maxlogins limit in /etc/security/limits.conf? In other words, are there any performance-related and security-related benefits to be gained?
I have only three users on my machine, ...
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linux/xfce4: How to get rid of “choose session name”?
I've been running xcfe4 for a long time with no problems under linux.
Today I was making some changes to grub and doing some reboots to test it. Now, every time I enter my login password via the ...
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Is there a way to change the process group of a running process?
Is there a way to change PID, PPID, SID of a running process? It would make sense for the answer to be no, but I'd like to make sure.
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Is it possible to log into all 6 terminal sessions at once?
If I press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to the 1st terminal session, I have to give my username and password to log in. If I press Ctrl+Alt+F2, I have to repeat this process. Same for F3, F4, F5, and F6.
Is ...
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How can I launch a new session of tmux in iTerm2 on a separate window?
I would like to start a tmux session on a separate window in iTerm2. Now I'm writing my own configuration script to launch the session.
tmux new-session -s dev -n main -d
tmux send-keys -t dev "cd $...
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Execute script prior to cinnamon logout (unsing MDM or other display manager)
I'm using cinnamon as desktop environment on my Linux Mint system.
I want to automate a backup using unison:
Unison shall be executed prior to each logout off my session. So I was looking for a ...
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Viewing history of echo'd text on terminal
I detached gits head using git checkout 4037ec1702bd2fa6a5a15f7413f4ccccb59d356e . and lost all my work.
I still have the terminal open. Not that long ago, I did a git diff, so my changes were all ...
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Is it possible to automate clicks with xdotool to control a different GUI session from the one being currently used?
The xdotool command allows us to create scripts controlling the graphical user interface of the system very easily. I can e.g. open my Chrome browser in the following desktop by executing xdotool ...
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Screen, or similar, for automatically resuming a flaky ssh connection
I often have to connect to a server over ssh in an unreliable wifi environment. On the server, I run screen, so if I get disconnected, I can reconnect and resume the screen session, and pick up where ...
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When a session leader acquires a controlling terminal, how would the other existing processes in the session also acquire the controlling terminal?
Suppose there is a session with multiple processes in it and without a controlling terminal.
When the session leader creates a connection to a controlling terminal,
how would the other processes ...
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How to write a systemd user service that requires an active session
I've created a systemd user service to run a duplicity backup job once a day at 17:00 broadly based on an article in Fedora Magazine. I'm running Fedora 28 with the Gnome desktop. My systemd timer ...
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Is a session leader the only process in its group?
The following diagram from APUE leads me to wonder: in a process session, does the process group of the session leader contain only the session leader and no other process?
Any process created by ...
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Switching user with gdmflexiserver from i3
Apparently, when using gdm3 (the default of Ubuntu 18.04) we should be able to run gdmflexiserver to get a new greeter and log in with resp. switch to another user.
When running the command in my i3 ...
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w command doesn't show all pseudo-terminal sessions
If I open terminal and execute w command then it will show:
user tty7 :0 12:04 39:56 36.87s 0.06s /sbin/upstart -
Now if open terminator or xterm and execute w command then ...
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Unable to find tmux session but it shows up as a file?
Yesterday I had started a tmux session, but when I logged into the computer today, I cannot find it, i.e. tmux ls cannot find the session.
But when I run top I can see that the following tmux ...
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Save/restore desktop session [closed]
My Linux session got saved somehow and every time I restart, it's restoring the same saved session (a terminal and a particular program).
I am not able to find the setting or the saved file to ...
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Running bash -v or bash --v by mistake to know bash version compared to bash -v varname
A few times I mistook bash -v or bash --v to represent bash --version which they do not, as of Bash 4.3.48(1).
From man bash, bash -v is equivalent to bash --verbose; although it returns a large ...
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.xsession exec not recognise $HOME or arguments?
The basic scenario is that I'm sharing my dot files across multiple machines and want to have my session definitons synced as well.
Since I use different laptops and monitors with significantly ...
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Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon cannot start a session
As of today, I cannot login into my account. I start the computer, get to the login screen, login and then this following error appears:
Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds, if you...
And ...
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Can I combine ksh/zsh and other shells with Bash in the same workflow?
Can I combine ksh/zsh and other shells with Bash in the same workflow (shell session)?
I am used to Bash but I might need some behavior available either in ksh or zsh. Could I use Bash with them, in ...
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`sudo setsid command` does not spawn new process group?
I am looking at a scenario where I want to run a program / command with sudo as part of a software test. The commands are launched from a Python script based on the subprocess module. I am attempting ...
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SSH session and ClientAlive problem
I have a question about ssh configuration. In a test machine I've set:
# TCPKeepAlive yes
Protocol 2
ClientAliveInterval 60
ClientAliveCountMax 0
And if I wait a minute, session does not close.
I'...
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Save GNU Screen session layout after reboot
I would like to retain/restore the following properties of a GNU Screen after reboot:
Name and number of screen sessions
Name and number of windows inside every screen
Screen splitting (i.e., ...
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Echo something from a tmux session to base session
I have a script with this code:
#!/bin/bash
tmux new-session -d bash
sleep 1d
echo 1 day passed
tmux kill-session
AFAIU, the echo will appear after 24 hours in the tmux session's stdout ...
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Does each process in a session get its input from and send its output to the terminal the session is connected to?
This tutorial says the following:
Every session is tied to a terminal from which processes in the
session get their input and to which they send their output.
I think that this statement is ...
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Using session command from a cron job (linux)
I need to be able to start a named "session" from within a cron job and run a job within that named session. The job I need to run MAY cause my appliance to not run properly if problem exist and I ...
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Save xfce4 session from the command-line
I usually save the session with the graphical app xfce4-session-settings (Session -> Save Session). Can this be also done from the command-line? How?
