How to start application in tmux on boot?

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Hi can anyone show me how to do as title?

I want my qbittorent cli (qbittorent-nox) to run in tmux automatically on system start.
Im running on opensuse 13.1/3.2.

thanks.

(ah. also, I dont know screen and has no intent to use/learn it).

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How about turning it into a systemd service?

As root, make a file in /usr/lib/systemd/system/ called qbittorrent-nox.service


[Unit]
Description=qBittorrent-nox
After=network.target


[Service]
Type=forking
User=root
ExecStart=/usr/bin/tmux new-session -d -s qbittorrent-nox qbittorrent-nox
ExecStop=/usr/bin/tmux -c qbittorrent-nox -X quit


[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Replace User= with your username, don’t run it as root.

systemctl enable qbittorrent-nox.service
systemctl start qbittorrent-nox.service
systemctl status qbittorrent-nox.service

3

Worked like charm! lol! thanks!

4

Hi,

Although that works, the recommended place for a local unit file (for the local admins) is inside the directory

/etc/systemd/system

Unless the docs was change, but don’t get me wrong /usr/lib is also fine.

5

I was hesitating in making the same remark. But I was to lazy to look in the 13.2 docs (I have 13.1 here). IMHO this is a very valuable remark. At least when you want to save your local configuration from being destroyed on some update of systemd.

6

Good point, although to this date I’ve never had any .service files being removed myself.

7

On 2015-04-08 15:46, Miuku wrote:
>
> Good point, although to this date I’ve never had any .service files
> being removed myself.

I don’t think any will be removed, unless there is a name clash.
However, it is easier to find your modifications and configurations in
/etc and copy them over to another machine or release.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.

(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))

8

Did you read the documentation?

9

On 2015-04-08 19:06, hcvv wrote:
>
> robin_listas;2703739 Wrote:
>>
>> I don’t think any will be removed, unless there is a name clash.
>> However, it is easier to find your modifications and configurations in
>> /etc and copy them over to another machine or release.

On package management? That’s how yast works. General Linux design,
nothing new.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.

(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))