2

So i was using fluxbox and had a terminal using ssh to connect to a server. This server automatically starts byobu for everyone who's connecting to him. At least until i accidently closed my fluxbox while still having the ssh connection working. Now only the ssh connections from my machine won't use byobu but pure ssh instead. It's not that i mind that, actually i prefer it that way, but there is someone also using the machine i'm using and he wants to have byobu starting automatically.

And now i'm in a tight spot, kind of at least. I don't know how to activate the byobu session for a particular machine and i don't know how it was deactivated for only this machine? Is it possible, that the old session is still active on the server and just waits to get finished? And if that's the problem, how do i finish it?

Jonas
  • 21

1 Answers1

2

Author and maintainer of Byobu here :-)

There are several ways to have Byobu launch automatically at boot...

As the system administrator, you can set Byobu to launch automatically for all users by enabling that at the package level:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure byobu

Each local, non-administrator user on the system can override that system-wide setting above, by running:

byobu-enable

or

byobu-disable

And finally, anyone can export an environment variable locally on the system where they SSH from. This variable will be passed over the SSH connection and if Byobu is running on the remote system, it will detect that and launch automatically if set. To enable launching of Byobu by default when SSH'ing to another system simply:

echo "export LC_BYOBU=1" >> ~/.bashrc
Dustin Kirkland
  • 14,919