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 <m...@erdelynet.com> wrote: > 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 work here. I pulled out the important bits and just >> to start off wrote this script which I placed in ~/bin/scr: >> #!/bin/sh >> TAG=TAG=`date +%H%M%S` >> sudo -u kousu -H /usr/local/bin/screen -d -m -S $TAG >> >> If I run this script as myself or as root (to simulate running as >> /etc/rc) it works: >> $ sh bin/scr >> $ screen -ls >> There is a screen on: >> 21423.152001 (Detached) >> 1 Socket in /tmp/uscreens/S-kousu. > > Try the @reboot entry in your personal crontab. > That's how I get my tmux session going. > > And switch to tmux, it's better. :) > > -ME
