I am trying to quit a program with a bash script. The problem is that it has to be quit via the the x-button to save some settings. So pkill program do not work in my case. I know that I have to sent a signal for the x-button but I can not find witch one.
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I'm doing my project and I need to log keystrokes system wide in macOS. So, I turned over to GitHub and found Swift-Keylogger. The only problem is I can't quit the Terminal while the program is still running.
Is there any way to not to run this in terminal or closing the terminal window instead of creating a mac app like here.
Note: There are some mac app style executables in github but they are not providing the output I want and some need additional permissions.
Instead of running the executable like ./Keylogger use nohup ./Keylogger &.
You can quit the Terminal after executing the command.
To kill the Keylogger, run ps -e | grep "Keylogger" to get pid and kill -9 pid.
P.S. I thought of adding it as well as running at startup but I'm too lazy to update the repository.
I am running some simulations on another machine via ssh. Here is what I do
ssh username#ipp.ip.ip.ip
Go to the right directory
cd path/to/folder
And then I just call my executable
.\myexecutable.exe
The issue is that every time the ssh disconnect, the simulations stops. How can I make sure the simulations doesn't stop on the other machine? Will I somehow receive potential error messages (assuming the code will crash) once I reconnect (ssh)?
You should launch a screen or tmux to create a terminal from which you can detach, leave running in the background and later reattach.
Further reading:
http://ss64.com/osx/screen.html
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/screen.1.html
You may also want to try out Byobu:
http://byobu.co
run your command as follows : nohup ./myexecutable.exe >nohup.out 2>&1 &
The & is to run the command in the background
The >nohup.out 2>&1 sends your stdout and stderr to nohup.out)
Note the '/' as opposed to '\' - which won't work on osx
I wrote a shell script that runs a service. I open the terminal, I run the script that runs the service and, after the script ends, I close the terminal but the service keeps running, and this is what I want.
Anyway, if I run the script through the Gnome command "Run in terminal", when the terminal closes, also the service is killed.
That's very strange, I can't understand why and I'm not able to solve this problem.
Any ideas?
Try executing
nohup ./shell_script &
nohup command makes the process continue executing even after the terminal has closed, ignoring the SIGHUP signal.
Note the script will execute in the background, and the output will be appended to a file.
When I execute a file with node.js (by typing "node example.js", maybe a http server), then, when I close the Terminal window (Mac OS X Lion), the process is stopped and doesn't answers on requests anymore. The same happens if I type "ctrl c" or "ctrl z". How can I close the Terminal without stopping the process, so my server continues answering on requests.
Use a combination of the nohup prefix command (to keep the process from being killed when the terminal closes) and the & suffix (to run the process in the background so it doesn't tie up the terminal):
nohup node example.js &
You should also look into forever or similar tools that will also automatically restart the server if it crashes, and nodemon which will automatically restart it when you change the code.
I made a pseudo terminal with method described here: http://lists.apple.com/archives/student-dev/2005/Mar/msg00019.html
The terminal itself worked well. Anyway the problem is terminal cannot being switched to child process. For an example, I launched bash with NSTask, and if I execute ftp within the bash, it stops automatically.
ftp
ftp
ftp>
[1]+ Stopped ftp
bash-3.2$
And if I try to continue the ftp with fg, it terminates quietly. (I checked this with Activity Monitor)
fg
fg
ftp
bash-3.2$
fg
fg
bash: fg: current: no such job
bash-3.2$
I think it needs some more infrastructure (which completes pseudo terminal) to switch control to child process. What's required to do this?
I could finally do this by creating a pty device. To make a program behave like "Terminal", it must be executed in an interactive terminal, and that needs pseudo-terminal device.
Unfortunately, AFAIK, NSTask does not support any pty ability, so I had to get down to BSD layer.
Here's my current implementation: https://github.com/eonil/PseudoTeletypewriter.Swift
sudo is working well, and I believe ssh should also work.
Have a look at the source code of MFTask and PseudoTTY.app (which works on Mac OS X 10.6).
See: http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?NSTask
For a pty command line tool see here.