Re: screen, detached, stdout

[Andrew McGlashan]

Hi,

Nico Schlömer wrote:
> I would like to start a series of jobs in the background and log their
> stdout in specific files. The idea is to use screen for this, and I
> went ahead and typed
>
> $ screen -d -m /path/to/my/exec
>
> which puts the job nicely in the background. Let's log stdout:
>
> $ screen -d -m /path/to/my/exec | tee output.log

What's wrong with using the -L option?

As a test, I created the following alias and ran it fine.

# alias ns9='if [ -f screenlog.0 ];then rm screenlog.0;fi && 
(/usr/bin/screen -S root -L -d -m time /usr/local/bin/program.sh; tail 
-99f screenlog.0) && mv screenlog.0 my-test-screenlog.out'


# ns9

That seems to work nicely!

And I know it's finished when I see the "time" output.

If you want to run multiple sessions, then you might need to create a 
working directory for each one and start the command in each directory 
so that it will always have it's own screenlog.0 file.


Cheers

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Kind Regards
AndrewM

Andrew McGlashan
Broadband Solutions now including VoIP