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   advokatt (km@mastodon.babb.no)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 16:28:58 JST advokatt

   when needing to automatically start – and restart – some command on #OpenBSD, I often end up using `cron(8)` and `tmux(1)`, like this:

   ```
   0 * * * * tmux list-sessions|grep -q foo||tmux new -d -s foo /some/command

   ```

   `-d` will start a detached session, and `-s name` will ensure only one session with that name will ever be started

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     Solène :flan_hacker: (solene@bsd.network)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 16:28:49 JST Solène :flan_hacker:

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     • Paul SomeoneElse

     @pkw @km maybe you will enjoy tmuxinator

     https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-05-17-potw-tmuxinator.html

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     Paul SomeoneElse (pkw@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 16:28:50 JST Paul SomeoneElse

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     @km That's cool. I usually develop services using tmux, and then they graduate to rc scripts.

     But I never considered automating the tmux sessions. So currently if a machine power cycles my "dev" tmux sessions will go down.

     I might have to try this.

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     Solène :flan_hacker: (solene@bsd.network)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 05:02:53 JST Solène :flan_hacker:

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     • Paul SomeoneElse

     @km @pkw given your script, it should be easy to transpose to tmuxinator syntax

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     advokatt (km@mastodon.babb.no)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 05:02:54 JST advokatt

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     • Solène :flan_hacker:
     • Paul SomeoneElse

     @solene @pkw guess tmuxinator could make this one a bit friendlier...

     this is my startup script for cases when Xvnc is not cooperating with me, and I have to use Xvfb and x11vnc.

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     advokatt (km@mastodon.babb.no)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 05:02:55 JST advokatt

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     • Paul SomeoneElse

     @solene @pkw OMG! yes!😻