Comments on: Less than successful: mc as a daemon

By: Christian Neukirchen

Christian Neukirchen — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:58:56 +0000

Try openvt? Also can bind to a vt.

By: jeremiah

jeremiah — Tue, 24 May 2011 14:02:46 +0000

Here’s a quick example of a script to connect to a detached irc session (or create a new one if one doesn’t already exist):

#!/bin/sh

IRC_COMMAND=”irssi”
DTACH_SOCKET=”/tmp/${USER}-irc”

if [ -S $DTACH_SOCKET ]; then
dtach -a $DTACH_SOCKET -r winch
else
dtach -c $DTACH_SOCKET -z $IRC_COMMAND
fi

# Should be easy to see how to change this as needed edit as needed… to dtach from a session, you hit Ctrl-\.

By: jeremiah

jeremiah — Tue, 24 May 2011 13:51:25 +0000

for those thinking about trapping single programs within a “screen” session, look into “dtach”: this is dtach’s sole purpose so it’s much lighter than having several screen sessions running.

I have several programs that are usually running in their own dtach sessions: irssi, rtorrent, mutt.