byobu-enable only changes the user's configuration to automatically load byobu after a shell was initiated. However, as described earlier: > Turning byobu's Start automatically after log in on does not work, because > there is no login to happen, as the script is started from cron. <div class="gmail_quote">2012/5/19 Marcos Barbosa <<a href="mailto:marcosestevesbarbosa@gmail.com" target="_blank">marcosestevesbarbosa@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Do you try byobu-enable? 2012/5/19 Whisperity <<a href="mailto:whisperity@gmail.com">whisperity@gmail.com</a>>: <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> Dear fellow Ubuntu users, > > I have an automatation question I'd like to ask from you. My server runs > some servers which are, unfortunately, not daemons (like Minecraft or Source > Dedicated Server). I am planning on making them automatically start at boot > with the @reboot directive in crontab, but I wish their sessions to be > usable from byobu. > > Problem being, that byobu does not auto-start. I have written a shell > script: > > #!/bin/bash > screen -dr byobu -X screen -t srcds > > screen -r byobu -p srcds -X stuff "./start_gmod.sh $(printf '\r')" > > And I execute it as my nonprivileged user in crontab: > > @reboot sourcesrv cd /srv/srcds/orangebox && > ./hook-byobu.sh > > However, running this script requires byobu to be started when it runs. If I > test the script with starting byobu by hand and then executing it from SSH, > it does order byobu to make a new window and then starts the server. > > My question being: can I, somehow, automatize the start of byobu into the > hook-byobu.sh file? I tried adding byobu (the command itself) after the > shebang-line, but then it hangs until I, by hand, F6 (detach) from byobu. > > Turning byobu's Start automatically after log in on does not work, because > there is no login to happen, as the script is started from cron. > > </div></div>> -- > ubuntu-server mailing list > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server</a> > More info: <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam</a> -- Marcos Barbosa <<a href="mailto:marcosestevesbarbosa@gmail.com">marcosestevesbarbosa@gmail.com</a>> </blockquote></div>