At the moment the scripts are manual to invoke and run. It would be neat to package this up into a service (or set of services) that could run automagically at server boot.
Until then, using GNU screen is a handy hack for setting scripts running and being able to disconnect from the server without terminating them. It's like using nohup ... &, except you can reconnect to the session itself as and when you want to.
At the moment the scripts are manual to invoke and run. It would be neat to package this up into a service (or set of services) that could run automagically at server boot.
Until then, using GNU
screen
is a handy hack for setting scripts running and being able to disconnect from the server without terminating them. It's like usingnohup ... &
, except you can reconnect to the session itself as and when you want to.