Re: Forcing screen to stay open after [cmd] is completed...

[Sadrul Habib Chowdhury]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Zak Kinion <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Basically my goal is:
>
> run screen:
>
> screen -d -m python myscript.py

You can use something like
    $ screen -d -m -c zombie python myscript.py

where
    $ cat zombie
    zombie qp
    $

This will keep the terminated window around, so you can attach, and
then press 'q' to close, or 'p' to rerun the script if you wanted to.

Sadrul

> which then moves it into the background.  myscript.py also launches
> some other python scripts over time.
>
> However, once myscript.py ends, then all the other scripts are gone
> forever, since the screen closes too.  They are not running at all
> under ps aux | grep otherscript.py
>
>
> I CAN just simply go:
>
> screen
>
> and hit enter after the welcome message, and then run:  python
> myscript.py and all is well....
>
> However this takes a lot longer and is harder for me to automate for my means.
>
>
> I'm basically looking for one command or argument that I can send to
> screen to have it run:
>
> screen -d -m python myscript.py   and NOT die when myscript.py terminates.
>
>
> Thank you
>
> --
> Zak Kinion
> address@hidden
>
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