Always need to enter password again

[Robert Heller]

At Sat, 12 Oct 2019 19:10:30 +0200 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> Am Samstag, den 12.10.2019, 16:06 +0100 schrieb Colin Law:
> > On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 at 15:34, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de>
> > wrote:
> > > Looks like I have to live with it.
> > 
> > Do you use the terminal often enough that it is a nuisance?  If so I
> > wonder why.  I generally only use it when the GUI is playing up and I
> > need to do something to sort it out.  I am not saying you should not
> > use it, just interested in the use case that needs it routinely.
> 
> You're right. I don't use it that often. But sometimes I have a long-
> running job which I don't want to do in a terminal window. When I check
> the progress, I need to switch to the virtual console and back. It just
> happened to happen a few times recently. Not sure any longer what it
> was precisely.

man nohup
man bash (search for "REDIRECTION")
man nice

Eg: 
nohup nice ./long-running-job-script.sh >& long-running-job-script.log </dev/null &

Then some time later:

tail long-running-job-script.log

will give you the last few lines written to the log file.



> 
> I'm just surprised of the Gnome3 behaviour, since I don't see the
> benefit of it.
> 
> Cheers
> Volker
> 
> 

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