Create a screen session, then startup three windows

Asked Jan 17 '16 at 20:54

Active Mar 05 '18 at 11:17

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I'm trying to write a script that will create 4 background processes doing different things on my server, but I'm really struggling to get it working.

My script looks like this:

screen -d -m -S processes
screen -S processes -X alarm-daemon bash -c "/home/ross/script.d/startDameon.sh"
screen -S processes -X watchdog bash -c "/home/ross/script.d/startWatchdog.sh"
screen -S processes -X openhab bash -c "tail /var/log/openhab/openhab.log -f"
screen -S processes -X alarmMqttClient bash -c "/home/ross/LS30/alarmMqttClient.pl"

Whilst I do have a screen session created it only has one window with nothing in it - obviously something isn't correct!

edited Mar 05 '18 at 11:17

Vadim Kotov

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asked Jan 17 '16 at 20:54

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`screen` is often a struggle. `tmux` is easier to automate. – chicks Jan 17 '16 at 23:08
The first line creates a detached session, which you never subsequently attach to. – chepner Jan 18 '16 at 02:03

Create a screen session, then startup three windows

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